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  From: Pamela Kellet <pck2104@columbia.edu>
  To  : <cpc@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:56:48 -0500

GOP secretly gathering data

So I've been kind of following this story in spurts and I thought that I 
should probably share it with the group. It turns out that the GOP in 
Minnesota is collecting political data about people via an interactive CD. 
The data is not anonymous and apparently users are not told that it is 
being collected into a giant database.

Here was one of the initial stories I read:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11653284/

Here is an outraged editorial on the story:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/28/the-minnesota-gops-stealth-attack-on-privacy/

Finally, here is an example of how people can crack the code (apparently 
without much trouble) and get access to the information that the GOP is 
gathering.
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/minnesota/polinaut/archive/2006/02/major_security.php


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