Minnesota GOP's CD Raises Privacy Concerns

doginthewoods writes to tell us the ThinkProgress blog is reporting that the Minnesota Republican Party has been distributing a new CD about a recent proposed amendment. The CD poses questions about some of the hot-button issues like abortion, gun control, and illegal immigration. The problem with this CD, however, is that it "phones home" to the Minnesota GOP, without making it clear that your name is attached. So, if you take a look at the CD and take time to answer the questions, beware. Once you are finished they will know not only who you are, but where you stand on the issues at hand.

Let me get this straight

[Anonymous Coward]

If you submit a form with your name on it... it submits your form with your name on it?!! The shock! The horror!

Anyway, the real story, if you actually read, is that the information you submit is supposedly available on a publicly accessible website.

Spying on innocent Americans?

[plimsoll]

I for one am shocked -SHOCKED- to see such behavior from a party that espouses both "small government" and keeping it's nose out of our business. This is completely out of character with the current administration, and I'm sure will be responsibly acknowledged and dealt with. Expect a public mea culpa from the president shortly.

that's not a real problem

[penguin-collective]

Once you vote on the GOP-supported electronic voting machines, they will probably know how you would have voted if your vote had actually been counted.

Re:Originally reported by Bob Collins

[SanityInAnarchy]

Yes- very similar process to if you got a free AOL cd at the grocery store.

This can't be good...

Re:Your tax forms

[NoData]

Hmmm...Let's take a look.

Form 1040
---snip----

34 Student loan interest deduction (see page 33)

35 Tuition and fees deduction (see page 34)

36 Add lines 34 and 35 here

37a Oh, BTW, do think gays should marry?
    b Seriously?

38 Domestic production acitivities deduction. Attach Form 8903-35

39 Subtract the number of unborn children murdered this year from line 34

40 Total value of stock or other securities sold this year

41a Interest earned from personal savings
    b Interest taken in your personal salvation

42 On a scale of 1-10 rate how awesome your president is here

43 Multiply line 42 by the total of lines 28, 36, 38, 39. This is your refund.

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Man! You are RIGHT. I need to read that shit more closely.

Just no. Why do people say ummm no?

[el americano]

If you are a right-thinking American, what do you have to fear ;-)

Re:Your tax forms

[Kohath]

The current trend is to justify ignoring Liberals by calling them "Anti-American" or "Traitors."

Nope. That's just the pretend stuff for the wackos. Everyone knows the left isn't traitorous in general. They just put winning elections ahead of national security. It's ok, national security is still in your top 10 priorities. Maybe 8th.

The current trend is to say you're not FOR anything and you have no ideas. And it'll work too, unless there's a bunch of good counter-examples. (Try saying you want to raise taxes again. It's the truth, and it worked so good the last time.)

I think the left's priorities go like this:

1. I hate Bush
2. Money
3. Win elections
4. I hate corporations
5. I hate religious people
6. I hate the rich
7. Make the earth feel our love
8. Lookout for terrorists
9. I hate SUV drivers
10. I hate the military
11. I hate smokers, fast food restuarants, cell phone talkers, wal-mart, oil companies, meat eaters, fur wearers, snowmobilers, farmers, managers, electricity generation, homeschoolers, zoos, etc., etc., etc.
.
.
999. Are you going to eat that? (Yes? I hate you.)
1000. Privacy.
1001. I hate light pollution from the reflections off of orbiting satellites.

and so on.