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Private information can be used to publicly ruin anyone at any given time. What age do you think we live in? The Stone Age? Given the correct motivation someone could at any time find out something about your life even if you didn't want them to. That's the problem with the internet, it provides the ability to make the world smaller in a sense that you can easily communicate and pass on information but that is also one of it's problems of being connected. Don't try to tie partisan information to this, no one thrust this guy into the spotlight, he went up and talked to Barack Obama.
This guy didn't do anything to place himself in the spotlight, all he did was ask a presidential candidate a relevant question concerning his business. Not sure how, but a video of their conversation was placed on YouTube -- and made National Headline news.
He is a private citizen. He does not work for any political party. He does not endorse any candidate. Yet, there exists a subset of individuals who see nothing morally wrong in obtaining his personal information and make attempts to ruin his reputation in his line of work.
The fact that this government agency didn't keep his information secure is very disturbing to me.
The fact that there exists folks who see nothing wrong in viewing this as an opportunity to ruin his business -- is a different issue.
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Not that long ago, people living in the United States had a sense of "Right and Wrong"...
This guy didn't do anything to place himself in the spotlight, all he did was ask a presidential candidate a relevant question concerning his business. Not sure how, but a video of their conversation was placed on YouTube -- and made National Headline news.
He is a private citizen. He does not work for any political party. He does not endorse any candidate. Yet, there exists a subset of individuals who see nothing morally wrong in obtaining his personal information and make attempts to ruin his reputation in his line of work.
The fact that this government agency didn't keep his information secure is very disturbing to me.
The fact that there exists folks who see nothing wrong in viewing this as an opportunity to ruin his business -- is a different issue.
This guy didn't do anything to place himself in the spotlight, all he did was ask a presidential candidate a relevant question concerning his business. Not sure how, but a video of their conversation was placed on YouTube -- and made National Headline news.
He is a private citizen. He does not work for any political party. He does not endorse any candidate. Yet, there exists a subset of individuals who see nothing morally wrong in obtaining his personal information and make attempts to ruin his reputation in his line of work.
The fact that this government agency didn't keep his information secure is very disturbing to me.
The fact that there exists folks who see nothing wrong in viewing this as an opportunity to ruin his business -- is a different issue.
You must live in a fictional world or something because there have always been people seeking information about one another. What do you think espionage is? What do you think private investigators are? They look for information on individuals and governments for money. If you find that all disturbing then I don't believe you understand human nature at all.
If you think the government is an airtight entity then you have another thing coming. The biggest problem to any working part of an organization is an operator and in this sense a human's willful choice to act in such a behavior. The government does bear some responsibility but even so it is made up of humans who are in no way perfect and thus make flawed decisions.
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News flash! Tax liens and licensing records are public information. I could walk down to my county clerk's office and walk out with a list of everyone with a tax lien or judgement lien in my entire county. I don't doubt that the people looking up his information had ulterior motives, but at least in CO, all of that information could have been dug up by anyone with a phone in a matter of minutes.