CD from Minnesota GOP also gathers data

Updated: 9:11 a.m. ET March 3, 2006
ST. PAUL, Minn. - "A computer disk that the Minnesota Republican Party prepared to support a ban on gay marriage has another purpose: gathering data on the politics of the people who view it."

"And that's stirred up a technological tempest on the Internet and among Democrats who say the disk will improperly gather data from people who run it on their computers. Privacy experts say they're concerned that the GOP won't adequately warn users that it's collecting the data, and they worry where the information will end up."

However, once they were caught, they changed the tune a bit:

"But GOP officials said the final version of the CD that's due to be mailed soon to hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans will contain a notice that the information gathered may be used by the party."

Kinda hard to respect those folks, isn't it??!! It does make ya wonder to what depths they will sink.

You can bet the NSA will be involved in the next elections, if they weren't the last.

Arf