Comments on: Clintons in Relationship with Privacy-Violating Info Broker http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/26/clintons-in-relationship-with-privacy-violating-info-broker/ information ethics : privacy : new media : values in design : 2.0 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Zimmer http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/26/clintons-in-relationship-with-privacy-violating-info-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-63592 Michael Zimmer Sun, 27 May 2007 14:06:38 +0000 http://michaelzimmer.org/2007/05/26/clintons-in-relationship-with-privacy-violating-info-broker/#comment-63592 [Kevin from <a href="http://www.questiontechnology.org/" rel="nofollow">Question Technology</a> had trouble posting a comment, so he e-mailed it to me. Here it is] I recalled reading something about the Clintons in Robert O'Harrow's book "No Place to Hide", and went to check... He doesn't mention infoUSA, but describes their ties with another information broker, Acxiom. Both Clintons received money from Acxiom, and soon after 9-11 Acxiom went to Bill Clinton for help selling John Ashcroft on the idea that Acxiom's marketing databases could be used for anti-terrorism work. Wesley Clark is also heavily involved with Acxiom and their new role in this kind of work. I don't know if there's necessarily anything that unusual or untoward in their relationship with Acxiom, compared with the infoUSA story, but it might be another point against her claim as "privacy candidate." Kevin [Kevin from Question Technology had trouble posting a comment, so he e-mailed it to me. Here it is]

I recalled reading something about the Clintons in Robert O’Harrow’s book “No Place to Hide”, and went to check… He doesn’t mention infoUSA, but describes their ties with another information broker, Acxiom. Both Clintons received money from Acxiom, and soon after 9-11 Acxiom went to Bill Clinton for help selling John Ashcroft on the idea that Acxiom’s marketing databases could be used for anti-terrorism work. Wesley Clark is also heavily involved with Acxiom and their new role in this kind of work.

I don’t know if there’s necessarily anything that unusual or untoward in their relationship with Acxiom, compared with the infoUSA story, but it might be another point against her claim as “privacy candidate.”

Kevin

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