Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusOct 1, 2023

The Atlanta city council and mayor just doxxed and targeted over 100,000 people who signed a petition to put the stop cop city referendum on the ballot.

100k people who were literally just like "the citizens of Atlanta should have a say in this" now exposed via the state to harassment & violence.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/names-more-than-100k-who-signed-petition-against-atlanta-public-safety-training-center-now-public/HF4VD4NTC5FFLAC3IXAB3F6NUU/?outputType=amp

Names of more than 100K who signed petition against Atlanta public safety training center now public

There are more than 25,000 pages of signatures that list names and addresses.

WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta
Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusOct 2, 2023

If your takeaway from this is to argue a point that "technically, home addresses are public data so this is perfectly legal," then let me say it plain:

Home addresses. Should not. Be considered. Public.

Not ever, not once, never before, but especially not in a time of increasingly normalized political violence should a private citizen's home address where they and their families sleep and eat be considered or treated as "public data."

People petition "against" cops (not really what the petition was, but that's how the ATL City Govt is painting it), and then the city makes a huge show of releasing petitioners' names, numbers, and addresses out into the world.

If you're a person with knowledge and experience of this world as it currently is and has for some time been, and you don't see that for the threat it is, i really don't know what to say to you.

Show threadBill, organizer of stuff
@Wolven I think a lot of it is also context. An address being public, especially if optionally, as in phone listings, is relatively innocuous. Not perfect, and not immune to abuse, but generally manageable. There is a stark contrast between "Bob Smith lives at 123 Main St" and "Here are the homes of people whom we, a paramilitary force in charge of you, believe to be a threat." Just like "I spit on the sidewalk occasionally" is a long ways from "I am unemployable because of a gene variant"
Oct 3, 2023 at 1:08amWeb
Show threadBill, organizer of stuffOct 3, 2023
@Wolven This is also why I believe that the data privacy laws we have today are too focused on access and portability, and leave the implications of the use of that data largely up to the markets - a recipe inescapably riddled with possibilities for abuse. Data privacy regulation should, in my opinion, also restrict the use of any identifying or personal data from being used in a way that, if understood by the subject, would cause even the perception of harm.