The Studebaker Drivers Club, at one time, authorized Cornerstone Registration, Ltd., to publish and sell to SDC members only, a Membership Roster, which included, by Country, member information (i.e. name, street address, telephone number, email address and Studebakers owned). A digital version of the Roster was later offered on a thumb drive. Both versions carried a disclaimer notice prohibiting sale or reproduction of the material contained therein, in an attempt to keep it private. (The current membership application continues to solicit the same personal information.)
I only have the 2018 digital version, so I inquired about the availability of an updated copy. Cornerstone responded “…SDC Board was worried that people would copy it and spread it around. They feared member information would be compromised, sold, etc. They put a halt to the sale of the directory on a USB drive.” Privacy does prevail!
In the October 2022, issue of Turning Wheels under “The President’s Message” on page 4, a **BREAKING NEWS** item announced that the SDC Board of Directors, in a special meeting on August 28, 2022, approved a new communication package for the members of SDC. Enter Group Works.
Sometime around March 20, 2022, obviously prior to the official announcement, I was alerted, via email, to the growth of Group Works. It had expanded its reach into SDC to the tune of 4,000+ contactable members. I am not sure how that happened, but invitations would be sent to those members offering them inclusion into the Group Works data base if they so desired. Some ultimately accepted the invitation only to find that they were also offered invitations to join other groups of Elment3, the parent of Group Works. Group Works no longer exists. But does privacy prevail?
I only have the 2018 digital version, so I inquired about the availability of an updated copy. Cornerstone responded “…SDC Board was worried that people would copy it and spread it around. They feared member information would be compromised, sold, etc. They put a halt to the sale of the directory on a USB drive.” Privacy does prevail!
In the October 2022, issue of Turning Wheels under “The President’s Message” on page 4, a **BREAKING NEWS** item announced that the SDC Board of Directors, in a special meeting on August 28, 2022, approved a new communication package for the members of SDC. Enter Group Works.
Sometime around March 20, 2022, obviously prior to the official announcement, I was alerted, via email, to the growth of Group Works. It had expanded its reach into SDC to the tune of 4,000+ contactable members. I am not sure how that happened, but invitations would be sent to those members offering them inclusion into the Group Works data base if they so desired. Some ultimately accepted the invitation only to find that they were also offered invitations to join other groups of Elment3, the parent of Group Works. Group Works no longer exists. But does privacy prevail?
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