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Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners

Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners:

A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities.

For those who are now saying that this is a prime example of how Open Data can be abused, I wonder if journalist’s addresses are really Open Data?

Some background info and thoughts also by GigaOm’s Matthew Ingram.


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