http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/ Ancient Danger in a Human World Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-537 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:37:16 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-537 [...] Google has a copy of everything you wrote.  Bing, too.  And Yahoo!  The Wayback Machine has a copy.  Sploggers haver a copy.  Anyone who knows anything about Copy and Paste can get a copy from Google without even asking you.  RSS scrapers have more backup copies than you have of your work. [...]

]]> http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-469 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:24:01 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-469 That’s good analysis — I just don’t understand the initial impetus to mock the actual usernames in print on the blog. That ongoing effort diminishes the Chief of Police in situ — and that’s without considering any privacy laws that protect job applicants that may have been violated.
The Chief of Police is the head law enforcer on the streets and that job is to lead and to protect and to serve and, I would hope, not pre-judge applicants from a hiring pool based on an email username alone.
Don’t we want our public servants to be open and helpful in process instead of lurking and waiting for the moment to pounce on someone else’s unintentional faux pas?

]]> http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-468 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:01:03 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-468 I think Tom didn’t foresee the trouble…happens with this “transparent, straight shooter” kind of people…but I understand he should have. Glad to see the update – it proves his genuineness.

]]> http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-467 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:41:06 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-467 UPDATE:
I found Tom’s email address and sent him a heads up on this article.
Tom provided a quick and kind response and he is now working on removing the cached content from Google.

]]> http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-466 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:04:07 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-466 The usernames are very unique — so if you’re willing to dig a little, you can use a Google Search and find out a lot of information based on the username alone. If there were no privacy problem, why are the blog posts deleted?

]]> http://carceralnation.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-465 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00:19 +0000 http://carceralnation.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/when-the-chief-of-police-violates-privacy/#comment-465 I wonder if he felt it was okay to post them since he didn’t list the email companies and there are so many to which they can be linked?

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