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Anonymity at the personal level:
At the personal level, anonymity provides protection for all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard…
We are a Fellowship of people who have lost the ability to control our drinking and have found ourselves in various kinds of trouble as a result of…
When we use social media, we are responsible for our own anonymity and that of others. When we post or text, we should assume that we are publishing…
Explain that anonymity is extremely important to A.A. members. All A.A. members decides if and when to share aspects of their recovery, and with whom…
Asking for special favors because of A.A. membership is not in the spirit of the anonymity Traditions.
Publicly accessible aspects of the Internet such as websites featuring text, graphics, audio and video can be considered the same as publishing or…
Realizing that anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, it is recommended that talks by A.A. members as members be given in…
Yes, if full-face photographs and other easily identifiable photos of A.A. members (who are described as A.A. members) are published or broadcast,…
Those Traditions developed out of the experience of the early members. At first, they too felt that well-known A.A. members could help the Fellowship…
They will be there for the same reason that you are. They will not disclose your identity to outsiders. At A.A. you retain as much anonymity as you…
Like everyone else, public figures should have the protection of anonymity to the extent that they desire it.
Bill W. was not nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In early 1960 an individual from the New York area wrote to Bill concerning the possibility of…