The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy - From Nixon's Playbook

[TacticalPeek]

The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy

A story by Minnesota Public Radio reveals a disturbing new way that a political party is secretly grabbing sensitive personal information about voters.

This week the Minnesota Republican Party is distributing a new CD about a proposed state marriage amendment. Along with flashy graphics, the CD asks people their views on controversial issues such as abortion, gun control, illegal immigration, and so on.

The problem – the CD sends your answers back to headquarters, filed by name, address, and political views. No mention of that in the terms of use. No privacy policy at all. The story concludes: “So if you run the CD in your personal computer, by the end of it, the Minnesota GOP will not only know what you think on particular issues, but also who you are.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/28/the-minnesota-gops-stealth-attack-on-privacy

http://www.publicradio.org/columns/minnesota/polinaut


:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

Tar! Feathers! Pitchforks!

[Wickerman]

1. Grrr! That is the only issue the MN GOP has to run on

and they are playing it hard. Interviews with the Gov, little Timmy Pawlenty and some other evil hacks, all explaining why the state law that already says Gays can't marry isn't enough and why this is so important at the expense of all the other issues MN has to deal with.

And now this - I hadn't heard this. Bastards.

[mongo]

2. Ok......

Here is a screenshot from the Mn public radio site:



If you're dumb enough to fill in all of this info and hit submit, and NOT think that the information is going somewhere, well you just shouldn't use the net unsupervised I guess.

Kind of a misleading story.