[snip]
I don't know if people picked up the gay-marriage-in-California issue a
month or so ago (whether it should be legal or not). Well, notwithstanding
that, the State of California has now put the names of all the people it did
marry up for sale to marketers, on the basis that it's already public
information (and no opt-out like the UK's electoral register, I bet!)
[snip]
Now this will provide a major intrusion into innocent people's lives. There
are deeply bigoted and crusading people in the USA such as
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html who will almost certainly buy
this list and make the couples' lives miserable. This illustrates the fact
that we in the EEA are well served by Data Privacy legislation.
Disregarding any issues the underlying topic raises (this list is not the
place for that), it shows that unscrupulous people will sell and will buy
data and make potentially unpleasant use of it if legislation is not in
place to prevent that grave misuse.
Tim Trent - Consultant
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