[privacy] Connecticut to publish names of kids on the Internet

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

This new Connecticut law is just plain nutty.  It requires anyone doing more
thatn $50K of business with the state to have their name, their spouse's
name, and their kid's names published on a state Web site.  Zabasearch.com
can be used to find where the parents live in order to get to the kids.

Richard

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116666516426556240.html 

Wall Street Raises Privacy Fears Over Election-Law Overhauls

Industry Group Challenges
Connecticut Requirement
For Disclosure of Names
By MICHAEL HUDSON
December 21, 2006; Page A8

State-level election-law overhauls are bumping up against Wall Street
executives who want to protect their privacy.

A Wall Street trade association has gone to court to challenge a new
Connecticut election law that requires that state officials maintain an
Internet database listing the names of the children and spouses of
executives at companies that do business with the state.

The law is meant to discourage executives from hiding campaign contributions
by funneling them through family members. The Securities Industry and
Financial Markets Association, a combined group of the stock-market and
bond-trading trade groups, contends the state's public-disclosure
requirement would invade its members' privacy and put children at risk.

"How many Dateline NBC 'To Catch a Predators' do we have to watch to know
it's not a good idea to put the name of a kid on the Internet?" said Ira
Hammerman, the association's general counsel. He said the trade group
supports campaign reform, but said state officials "have gone overboard" in
their "zeal to do the right thing."

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