{"id":13034,"date":"2012-08-15T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=13034"},"modified":"2012-08-15T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:33:08","slug":"city-of-philadelphia-shoots-privacy-in-foot-with-new-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/politics\/city-of-philadelphia-shoots-privacy-in-foot-with-new-app\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Philadelphia Shoots Privacy In Foot With New App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know who got turned down for a gun permit? Turns out that there&#8217;s an app for that, at least in Philadelphia. There, the Department of Licenses and Inspection decided to release a web app that shows an insane amount of detail, on a handy-dandy, easy to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phila.gov\/map\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>. You can use the map to check for lots of information, rental permits, zoning, and until early today, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.phillymag.com\/the_philly_post\/2012\/08\/15\/philadelphia-gun-permit-appeals-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\">turned down for a gun permit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, the city of\u00a0 Philadelphia lets you know exactly who might not have a gun, down to their street address. While the city has pulled this data, there&#8217;s a bit of an uproar over privacy concerns. There&#8217;s way too much personal information on this site. For example, I could locate the zoning permit for a day care, multiple renovation permits, vacant properties, and business violations. I&#8217;m a creative sort of fellow and can think of multiple ways to use that information to springboard an evil scheme or two.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints about this web app should go beyond kicking off a discussion on gun owner&#8217;s rights. This is about more than that. I don&#8217;t care if the data pulled is about who owns a gun, a dog, or a car. There&#8217;s no reason all this data needs to be at anyone&#8217;s fingertips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know who got turned down for a gun permit? Turns out that there&#8217;s an app for that, at least in Philadelphia. There, the Department of Licenses and Inspection decided to release a web app that shows an insane amount of detail, on a handy-dandy, easy to use map. You can use the map [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[907,908,730],"tags":[3195,3196,3179,3197,2684,212,3198,3199],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13038,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13034\/revisions\/13038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}