“Secure” Government Databases?

by on October 27, 2008 · 2 comments

From the Columbus Dispatch:

Information on [Joe "the Plumber"] Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.

The security of information about you in government databases is contingent on you keeping your head down.

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Jim Harper

Jim Harper / Jim is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. Prior to becoming a policy analyst, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the House and Senate.

  • MikeRT

    When the government makes the price of peaceful democratic revolution through persuasion impossible for people like Joe Wurzelbacher, it makes violent revolution inevitable.

  • MikeRT

    When the government makes the price of peaceful democratic revolution through persuasion impossible for people like Joe Wurzelbacher, it makes violent revolution inevitable.

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