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May 16, 2005I see a pattern, do you?By Jim DallasFirst Tom DeLay criticizing Justice Kennedy for doing research on the Internet ("that's outrageous!"). Now, Bob Novak criticizing NARAL lobbyists for searching public records (from Pandagon). (To be sure, CNET argues DeLay might have (operative word "might") had a point; although I disagree -- judges do conduct sua sponte investigations often enough for lawyers to invent the term sua sponte and law students to know what sua sponte means. I'd criticize a judge for doing bad research (ala Pierre Salinger), not for doing research.) I'm a bit torn on this issue, so let me elaborate. Normally us liberal types are for individual privacy. When you go and compile information on people without their permission, that makes us liberal types cranky. But I, personally, would note, that once you've compiled the data, the worst thing that you can do is to hog it for yourself. David Brin, who normally writes science fiction, wrote a book a few years back making this argument - that it's better to have transparency. People who go ape about search engines are not trying to defend privacy. They are trying to keep you from getting your hands on information that exists and someone else would otherwise hoard - and hoarding for their benefit, NOT for yours. Information not only "wants" to be free, it must if we are to have a free and accountable society. Posted by Jim Dallas at May 16, 2005 10:50 AM | TrackBack
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The line is the legality of having the information. Is it publicly available? Then there's nothing wrong with looking at it, even if someone thinks it should be private. Is it protected information, such as medical records or college transcripts? Then don't look for it. Posted by: Jason Stanford at May 16, 2005 11:33 AMPublic records are public records. If someone wants to Google someone, fine; however, if someone wants to know my GPA, or whether or not I have had an abortion, they can keep away from my confidential records, because there is a reason things like that are kept private. If someone is compiling lists of, say, past University Democrats officers for their fundraising purposes, then that is for their benefit, not mine--yet, there is nothing nefarious about that. If NARAL wants to probe financial records of potential judges, well, they (the potential nominees) are on public record as having certain dealings, a job as federal or Supreme Court judiciary certainly merits a little probing. BTW, Bob Novak is not exactly a shining example of defending privacy. Would he be up in arms regarding probing the finances of undercover CIA agents? Posted by: Andrea Meyer at May 16, 2005 04:20 PMMakes it even easier to go through with the nuclear option. Posted by: snrub at May 16, 2005 04:33 PM
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