|
Post by avordvet on Dec 27, 2012 5:38:55 GMT -5
Journalists' Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper's Google Map Of Gun Permit OwnersGregory Ferensteinm posted yesterday A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities. The bold move has escalated into a transparency arms race, after a Connecticut lawyer posted the phone number and addresses of the Journal's staff, including a Google Maps satellite Image of the Publisher's home. "I don’t know whether the Journal's publisher Janet Hasson is a permit holder herself, but here's how to find her to ask," read Christopher Fountain's blog post. The double irony here is that open data was heralded as a tool of enlightened civic dialog, and has been co-opted for fierce partisanship, bordering on public endangerment. techcrunch.com/2012/12/26/journalists-addresses-posted-google-maps-gun/?icid=maing-grid7|maing10|dl2|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D249935
|
|
|
Post by avordvet on Dec 27, 2012 5:59:08 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by hefferman1 on Dec 27, 2012 15:12:47 GMT -5
Did you read some of the responses, on that page. It seems as if the lefts ideas of pointing people out, has backfired and now people are looking into them. They are even saying to picket their houses, looking at what places they go to, and things like that. One guy even pointed out how the libs lived in gated communities to protect themselves. I guess turn about is fair play.
|
|