Your Privacy May Have Just Been Violated
Through Stellify’s link about the Comelec, I discovered the dreaded privacy nightmare.
The Philippine Commission On Elections (COMELEC) has just given up your private info to everybody online. They may have had good intentions with this - to make info public knowledge. This is a wrong way of doing it. If you are a registered Filipino Voter, you better start getting angry because other people are seeing personal stuff about you.
What are the implications of this big blunder? You may just be getting a whole lot of junk mail soon. Your Name and Address are shown on the web. People can actually STALK you. They’ll even know your birthdate!
MAGNIFICENT ELY The Technopreneur: This is my blog on usability, design, technopreneurship - with a dash of love, life and success thoughts. (Jozzua was my old 'telnet days' chat name).
Not to mention this makes identity theft easier…
please remove the link to the actual database ASAP, to stop it from reaching even more, and possibly malicious, users
@xahbbx: Did you see the link to the actual database? I didn’t even put it.
my bad
Mar 15th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
[...] Jozzua and Markku have both brought this up already - The COMELEC has posted a list of registered voters in the NCR online. We’re not just talking about names here - we’re talking about birth dates and addresses too. I know they’re trying to promote transparency in the elections, but, please excuse the profanity, what the fuck were they thinking?!? Were they thinking at all?!? Do they even have brains?!? [...]
Mar 17th, 2007 at 7:44 am
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Mar 18th, 2007 at 11:03 am
[...] COMELEC Posts Voter Info Online, Invades Privacy [...]
Mar 19th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Your Privacy May Have Just Been Violated!…
Comelec published the NCR voting list complete with names, addresses and birth dates - invitation to stalkers and identity thieves….