{"id":47685,"date":"2009-11-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0131587064.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-24T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:00:00","slug":"once-again-if-the-govt-has-data-it-will-be-abused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47685","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, If The Gov&#8217;t Has Data, It Will Be Abused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve pointed this out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20080117\/034640.shtml\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20070924\/035849.shtml\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20081027\/0417052654.shtml\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090517\/2306454915.shtml\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20090606\/1216325154.shtml\">over<\/a> again, but whenever a government puts together a big database of info on people &#8212; the data gets abused.  The latest example, found via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PrivacyLaw\/statuses\/6002027400\">Michael Scott<\/a> is the news that a police chief in Iowa has been suspended after he supposedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacylives.com\/des-moines-register-iowa-city-police-chief-suspended-investigation-into-his-use-of-official-data\/2009\/11\/23\/\" >revealed data that he never should have had in the first place<\/a>, supposedly handing out information on someone&#8217;s driving record and criminal history, despite having no legal reason to even have that info, let alone distribute it to anyone.  So why do we keep assuming that governments won&#8217;t abuse such data collections?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0131587064.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0131587064.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091124\/0131587064&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=16ecfd9319d3bf4f979afe756f2c2abd&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=16ecfd9319d3bf4f979afe756f2c2abd&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=BE1oDdXKNYU:IERLL48jTqM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=BE1oDdXKNYU:IERLL48jTqM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=BE1oDdXKNYU:IERLL48jTqM:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/BE1oDdXKNYU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve pointed this out over and over and over and over and over again, but whenever a government puts together a big database of info on people &#8212; the data gets abused. The latest example, found via Michael Scott is the news that a police chief in Iowa has been suspended after he supposedly revealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}