Made Donation now my info is on the net

[aaroh]

This sucks, if you made a donation to any campaign your full name, employment details and full address is displayed on the net for the public to see. Just google your name or anyone's name and all this info can be found. http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/

[Kittycat]

1. It's public information. For transparency purposes.

[babylonsister]

2. Your info is out there regardless, believe that. Is this the first time

you've spent money on the 'net? Have you ever signed a petition, have you not signed up for or on to anything?

[democrattotheend]

3. Only if you gave $200 or more

But yeah, I have issues with that.

[KSinTX]

7. Must be in a lump sum, I'm well over that mark but in pieces

nt

[writes3000]

4. That is fucking creepy as hell. I just looked myself up. Yikes. n/t

[KSinTX]

5. You didn't contribute to Halliburton, did you?

Just teasing. They have a banner ad over on the site. My name didn't come up, guess I'm not rich enough to matter!:toast:

[Joe the Revelator]

6. I'm not on there...

I give quite a bit of money and am not listed.

[ruggerson]

18. Extremely smart move by Obama's campaign

:P

[Joe the Revelator]

22. Ha- I just saw this. Good form ruggerson

:)

[Cali_Democrat]

21. I'm not there either and I gave over $200

[madeline_con]

8. If we couldn't lok this stuff up, there'd be complaints about THAT.

[rpannier]

9. They missed the 100 dollars I donated to Chris Dodd

They got the Edwards money. I thought that was weird

[Poll_Blind]

10. I know it's hard to believe, but your personal information is being RAPED 24/7...

...and you don't even know about it, because there's no way for you to sense it. In this instance, this is not such a big deal. If it really worries you, I want you to consider this:

  Every time you ever made a purchase with any company and you were a good consumer and checked to see that they promised not to share that information with ANYONE. Remember how good you felt? Well, when those companies go belly-up, every bit of that company becomes an asset which is sold to the highest bidder. Yes, including all your purchase information, everything they ever got from you, informationally.

  If you ruminate for any length of time on exactly just how revealing some of that information is, it will make your upset about this financial disclosure seem like a hangnail.

PB

P.S. STILL not upset? The main purchaser of that information is the Federal Government and/or organizations which turn around and sell that information to the Federal Government. And it's, ya know, not the nice part of the Federal Government...the ones who are likely to use all that data to determine which flavor of ice cream you like when they send you the free Baskin Robins coupon. Why do they need a warrant when they can just BUY your privacy from someone.

[ruby slippers]

12. isn't the computer that stores it all in Belgium named "The Beast?"

[ruby slippers]

11. thanks, kinda scary, though, isn't it? I don't think they need the map

to show excatly where you live, though, do you? Isn't a zip enough? Make the stalkers work to trail you......and don't answer the door when they knock....

[VolcanoJen]

13. Huh. I've donated to Obama six times, and I don't show up.

Do you have to give over $50.00 or something?

Whew!!!! :-)

[aaroh]

14. I don't want my full address to be displayed, they could just put the state at most

Now I'm reluctant to make any future campaign contributions or I'll just give a false address if I do (sue me).

[babylonsister]

16. Plug your phone number into google and tell me what comes up, please. nt

[aaroh]

17. nothing related to me :)

[anigbrowl]

15. Uh yeah, it's the law you know.

Has been for a while. Better than having it resold for profit by private companies you deal with (eg your bank).

[ruby slippers]

19. I see that some just have a first initial. Can you do that?

oh, and how many of you put in your real birthdate when it asks? Just wonderin' what happens if you don't.....

[blogslut]

20. That's why it dole it out over time

Ten dollars here. Twenty dollars there. Once you reach a single donation of $250.00, your name becomes part of public record.