{"id":6124,"date":"2012-04-27T06:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2012-04-27T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:11:25","slug":"political-email-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=6124","title":{"rendered":"Political Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email yesterday from &#8220;The Consumer Watchdog Campaign.&#8221;\u00a0 They apparently want the government to impose price controls on health insurance in California.\u00a0 I was curious how they got my name, since I am clearly not the target market, so I followed the link and found that they had used the voter registration records.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: #993300;\">Source Information for your Email Address<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: #993300;\">Information<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif; color: #993300;\">Optin Status:Opted InEmail Address:s*********w@m**.comEmail Type:not specified, defaulted to MIMEDate and time signed up:January 26, 2012 at 11:50:44 AM (PST)A description of how your email address was obtained:California Voter Registration Public Records<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Political advocates and candidates have used lists of addresses compiled from the voter records for a long time but this was the first time that I have seen one where they used my email address.\u00a0 Does the county registrar of voters have the right to do that?\u00a0 What controls are in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/echo.bluehornet.com\/ct\/4870734:2324676781:m:N:111741652:96F424F4E915277B6E9155D232E7D6E3\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/echo.bluehornet.com\/cimages\/70e6f707ade1017cefbbd6f5e0b50a22\/justifyrates_banner_jan2012.jpg?resize=494%2C88\" alt=\"Consumer Watchdog Campaign | Make Health Insurance Companies Justify Thier Rates\" width=\"494\" height=\"88\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It feels to me like a divide has been crossed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email yesterday from &#8220;The Consumer Watchdog Campaign.&#8221;\u00a0 They apparently want the government to impose price controls on health insurance in California.\u00a0 I was curious how they got my name, since I am clearly not the target market, so I followed the link and found that they had used the voter registration records. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[219,311],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-email","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-1AM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}