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California seems to suck  [message #20424] Tue, 13 April 2004 16:14 Go to next message
timmy

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In my day job I work in the field of Data Privacy and Data Protection. It's a tedious business, but someone has to do it. Today I recieved the following (which I have snipped from a learned discussion group)

BEGINS
[snip]
I don't know if people picked up the gay-marriage-in-California issue a month or so ago (whether it should be legal or not). Well, notwithstanding that, the State of California has now put the names of all the people it did marry up for sale to marketers, on the basis that it's already public information (and no opt-out like the UK's electoral register, I bet!) [snip]

Now this will provide a major intrusion into innocent people's lives. There are deeply bigoted and crusading people in the USA such as http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html who will almost certainly buy this list and make the couples' lives miserable.
ENDS

What scares me is that California will sell this list to all comers and the people who trusted the sanctity of their ceremony will be pummelled into the ground by bigotted swine. I don't know whom to protest to over this, but I leave it to you all to both pass this on and to bombard Arnie Anti Gay Marriage Schwarzenbugger with your thought


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icon8.gif How can this be legal???  [message #20425 is a reply to message #20424] Tue, 13 April 2004 20:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
lenny is currently offline  lenny

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The right to privacy should apply here I should think! And, I bet there will also be some heavy sexual discrimination/harassment lawsuits filed if this info ends up being sold.

Not a very nimble move on behalf of the state of california, if this turns out to be true.


"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
The full story is here:  [message #20427 is a reply to message #20424] Tue, 13 April 2004 21:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/04/041304sfList.htm

It is both true and appalling


Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Re: California seems to suck-bigtime  [message #20428 is a reply to message #20424] Tue, 13 April 2004 21:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
sparks is currently offline  sparks

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BTW thats arnie snitzelsucker.The [editted nasty gentleman] got elected by promising to lick clean all calafornakers toilets clean. s

[Sorry Sparks. a word too far, but I do appreciate the sentiment]

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Re: How can this be legal???  [message #20429 is a reply to message #20425] Tue, 13 April 2004 21:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
timmy

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You have to understand that the USA and the EEA have very different ideas about privacy.

In the EEA, if your data was given for one purpose it may not legally be used for another purpose. This is even true if you publish your name in a website. So a certain degree of "non abuse" is guaranteed by law.

In the USA the principles are not the same, which is why data about individuals in the EEA may not legally be exported to the USA.


Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
Marriage licenses are public records  [message #20430 is a reply to message #20427] Tue, 13 April 2004 21:18 Go to previous message
e is currently offline  e

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Information gathered from marriage licenses has been gathered and sold for years, not only in CA but in other states as well. So anybody could actually obtain the information with a little digging and expense. But it does seem rather odd that a list of gay marriages would be complied and sold by the city of San Francisco. It is rather disturbing that a city would make it easy and inexpensive for hate groups to obtain the information, especially San Francisco.

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