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Originally Posted by fasternyou929
Exactly. Birth and death information are public record, too. Does that mean an interactive map should be made that shows the home address of people who recently died? Maybe they can be color coded to show whether or not any remaining living persons live in the home, since that's public record too. If the person that died was the last person living at that address, and they have no living relatives within 300 miles, they should be marked with a special bright red dot. Nobody should care because it's just public information, right? Has been for many a decade!
The way information is presented is every bit as relevant as the information itself when it comes to making it available to the general public. Apparently a significant portion of the population is too stupid to recognize such a basic principle.
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The problem for you is the population is ok with it. The amount of information you can obtain easily from facebook is astonishing and that's people willing providing that information for anyone to look at, privacy controls on there are a joke.
A lot of this information has always been really easy to get and the little map is in no way relevant. If you really have a problem with it, you should fight the FOIA in it's entirity in regard to this type of release, not just because someone puts up a silly map. The government had nothing to do with the map in the first place. It's a newspaper that did it, they did nothing illegal by putting together the map, so you need to start by stopping how they got the information to put together the map....
Someone posted that they should make a map like this of welfare recipents last night. I replied that they should get off their ass and file the FOIA requests and make the damn thing instead of sitting on their ass making facebook posts.