[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by JourneyOfLife

IMO it just goes to show you how information can be published without much regard toward citizens' concern about their privacy. This may be a wake up call to some of you. This is not even the tip of the iceberg about data privacy.

Contact your elected officials and complain! Turning it into an issue will be the first step to get privacy laws updated in the US and at the state level!

Now about those websites! The website operator seems operate a bunch of sites making that sort of information available for anonymous access and it is not just voter reg info!


Here is a discussion about this very issue and the operator on another forum:Subject: Online Privacy - Personal Information - Company in Nashua, NH - Topix

After taking a look at a few of those posts on that thread/forum... and the consequential primal scream or rant, depending on how you look at it.... I did a couple of quick web searches on the name.

These are just a few links that showed up.


Tom Alciere - VOTING

http://www.tomalciere.com/benton.html

Bill seeks to limit access to Utah voter information

Bill aims to stop publication of voter information :: The Salt Lake Tribune

http://nyc.indymedia.org/media/text/dont_kill_.txt

NH State Representative Tom Alciere

Former legislator charged with assault - New Hampshire Business Review - April 10 2009

I doubt that you will have any success in blocking public access to voter rolls. The reason is POLITICIANS USE THEM.

Several years ago I participated in a local election campaign for the candidate who was subsequently elected Sheriff.

As part of the campaign process, the campaign office obtained the voter registration lists for the county, broken down by precincts, with the names, addresses and party affiliation of every registered voter in the county.

These lists were provided to campaign volunteers who then "walked the precincts" going door-to-door handing out campaign literature to every registered voter in their assigned area.

The politicians are not likely to pass laws limiting access to this information which is so vital to their election efforts.

[jojo]

Carl in Tampa, Again thanks for this site. It took lots of persistence but I finally cleared all the threats. There was a pull down menu on the results page that allowed you to "jump to location" so I deleted the file directly rather than from the Spy Bot program. So now I have Microsoft Essentials, Malware Bytes and Spy Bot. Hard to keep ahead of them.

[JourneyOfLife]

Originally Posted by Carl in Tampa

I doubt that you will have any success in blocking public access to voter rolls. The reason is POLITICIANS USE THEM.

Several years ago I participated in a local election campaign for the candidate who was subsequently elected Sheriff.

As part of the campaign process, the campaign office obtained the voter registration lists for the county, broken down by precincts, with the names, addresses and party affiliation of every registered voter in the county.

These lists were provided to campaign volunteers who then "walked the precincts" going door-to-door handing out campaign literature to every registered voter in their assigned area.

The politicians are not likely to pass laws limiting access to this information which is so vital to their election efforts.

You are probably correct.

I was thinking more like the state changing the rules for access to the information on the state web sites.

The person or group wanting the data must register and agree to terms of use. Then the state may have a bit of recourse to stop people from mass republishing that data which enables anyone to anonymously download it world-wide.... including the criminals!

Of course the state has to stop allowing anonymous access it to... they are the ones that set it loose in the internet wild in the first place!