Watch Your Neighbors Political Contribution

arrianus writes "Fundrace.org gives a fascinating perspective on campaign donation laws. You can look up people's political donations to the current presidential campaign based on name (type in a friend's name, and see how much money he donated, and to whom), location (see which of your neighbors are politically active). I leave the privacy implications of this as an exercise to the reader. How long before this is tied into marketing databases? What happens if an employer were to prescreen employees based on political leanings?" Well, it is illegal to screen like that - and frankly, for a healthy democracy, it's probably better to have this in the open. Still, disturbing to see.

Comments

Re:Let's see...

[jmt9581]

I'm actually not surprised that it's not more.

Clear Channel

[Go Aptran]

I could see Clear Channel screening their employees to determinine their political loyalties.

Clear Channel is a well known supporter of the Republicans and G.W. Bush... and they have fired DJs in the past who spoke out against the administration, organized pro-war rallies, and most recently dropped Howard Stern after he began to speak out against Bush.

If a tool exists, it will be used... both for good or for ill.

Rural Republicans

[PetoskeyGuy]

The rural areas are mostly republican. Is this how they get the name rednecks?