This is bull shit, the hackers need to be caught and a public castration. Wonder if our AG will ignore this?
Computer hackers are avenging the Occupy movement by exposing the personal information of police officers who evicted protesters and threatening family-values advocates who led a boycott of an American Muslim television show.
In three Internet postings last week, hackers from the loose online coalition called Anonymous published the email and physical addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, salary details of thousands of law enforcement officers all over the country.
Remember that old thought experiment wherein folks are invited to contemplate a world in which a person’s internal thoughts and dialogue were available to everyone around them? That day is closer than we think.
These types of actions (which I DO NOT condone) are simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the erosion of personal privacy. Your personal information is “out there” on god-only-knows how many different servers, whether owned by the government or business, and it is available to virtually anyone with the most rudimentary of computer skills.
You get in the right person’s crosshairs and you’re likely to wake up to every fucking detail of your life posted on the internet and, as every politician and celebrity discover sooner or later, once the genie of personal information is out of the bottle, there’s no getting it back in.
As everyone knows the major (if not all) the international unions are supporting OWS and of course many represent LEO’s. For example the Teamsters offered their HQ facilities for the OWS crowd to shower and sleep and they represent LEO’s. Wonder how they are going to spin this event to the rank-n-file?
Kind of like when the police decide to publish all the people who have concealed carry licenses in their local newspapers. Neither idea is very well thought out.
Ironically, The National Border Patrol Council which represents non-supervisory Border Patrol agents is AFL/CIO affiliated. AFL/CIO supports amnesty for illegal aliens. Most large labor unions push a liberal agenda, which is unfamiliar and uncomfortable for many police officers, as the law enforcement profession traditionally attracts a conservative minded person. YMMV
I subscribe to Privacy for Cops. They help keep my info off publicly accessible databases. I occasionally Google myself and I don’t usually find anything.
This service appears to be Kalifornia centered. It may not work for everyone. If these Occu-tards are getting their info from hacking, this service may not help much. However, I feel better having it.
I assumed it is some kind of public info or available on paid search websites. If a PD provides the information in every case, that is really messed up.
It’s public information. The VSP has no say in what a newspaper can or cannot publish and is legally unable to deny release of information to a request.
Think DOJ illegally denying FOIA requests…
ETA: I’m very familiar with the Christian Trejbol incident. He wasn’t very happy when VCDL published his personal information (which was actually publicly available in the white pages anyway), and even claimed (apparently fallaciously) to have received bomb threats and a “suspicious package” that was actually a UPS delivery.
In Florida it would come from the Department of Agriculture if it were available as public record.
It’s state specific; permit holder names and information aren’t public domain in Florida since 2006. It was taken out of public because of newspapers deciding it was a good idea to publish it.
It wouldn’t surprise me to see laws pop up in various states taking police officers personal information out of the public domain. Not sure I would agree with it, but I can see both sides of the argument surrounding it.
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” - Thomas Jefferson
I will give you a dollar if you can name what rebellion he was talking about. Hint - it wasn’t against the British.
But it is public information in Virginia. It wasn’t the “police” publishing private information as Irish argued, it was a private entity (The Roanoke Times) publishing public information the Virginia State Police are legally bound to release upon request.
My argument stands.
I can’t remember if the Trejbol incident resulted in VA changing the law to protect permit holders or not, but I do know it was a MAJOR bugaboo at the time.
