Tim correctly found the SSNs of the Kirkland officials at a google cache of
justicefiles.org.
BUT it is justicefiles.org that the city of Kirkland has sued to take
offline. (http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=kirkland)
My article about the judge in that case -- which included three SSNs -- is
what drew their nastygrams.
So the city's position seems to be that even though the SSNs on
justicefiles.org came from public court records, the compilation of them
violates "privacy rights."
-Declan
At 02:02 PM 5/19/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>At 11:12 PM -0400 5/18/01, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>>....
>>You can see news coverage of Kirkland's legal threats here:
>>http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165907.html
>>
>>The Politech article that is in danger of being taken down if
>>Kirkland wins an injunction:
>>http://www.politechbot.com/p-02008.html
>>
>>All the documents are online here:
>>http://www.politechbot.com/kirkland/
>
>....
>
>
>I've been reading some of these documents.
>
>To check for myself that these SSNs are already on the Web, I entered the
>name of the first of the cops into Google. Up popped a long list of
>Kirkland city employees and their SSNs and salaries and birthdates and
>whatnot. Apparently made searchable on the Web by the City of Kirkland itself.
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:30dec676da3085e3:www.justicefiles.org/Kirkland/Kirkland%2520SSN.asp+Blinsink&hl=en
>
>
>I don't know if this is the site Declan referred to, but this shows that
>communities like Kirkland ought to be protecting the privacy of their
>employees THEMSELVES before threatening journalists.
>
>--Tim May
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