Re:191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Da...
by JadeNB on Monday December 28, 2015 @11:27AM
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> Laws in various states restrict how you can use the data, but does any state prevent you from accessing it?
That's an interesting and subtle point, to which I don't know how to respond fairly. My information on these laws comes solely from the article, which says:
> In California, information on voter registration cards is considered confidential, and subject to many restrictions to access and use ….
"[S]ubject to many restrictions" links to https://www.lavote.net/Documents/purchase-order-for-voter-el.... I suppose that you could argue that these restrictions do not prevent you (assuming you are a US person) from accessing the data, but I think that the data are far from being public, which is what I understood you to be saying.
That's an interesting and subtle point, to which I don't know how to respond fairly. My information on these laws comes solely from the article, which says:
> In California, information on voter registration cards is considered confidential, and subject to many restrictions to access and use ….
"[S]ubject to many restrictions" links to https://www.lavote.net/Documents/purchase-order-for-voter-el.... I suppose that you could argue that these restrictions do not prevent you (assuming you are a US person) from accessing the data, but I think that the data are far from being public, which is what I understood you to be saying.