Comments on: Aggregated media coverage of Bozeman privacy fiasco

By: Michael Becker

Michael Becker — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Good point. I wrote about those very paragraphs in a new post: http://www.hypercrit.net/2009/08/18/police-office...

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:48:00 +0000

"So, we have positions ranging from fire and police, which require people of high integrity for those positions, all the way down to the lifeguards and the folks that work in city hall here. So we do those types of investigations to make sure the people that we hire have the highest moral character and are a good fit for the City," Sullivan said. Is that so? The following is taken from a Bozeman Police Officer's Facebook page as asserted in a civil suit against the city of Bozeman and other defendants: I think there should be a law saying police can take people to jail for being stupid. Ask a cop a question like, “Don’t you have anything better to do?” And you get a free ride in a cop car. If I had something better to do, I would be off doing that, and not messing with you. Speaking of messing with people . . . I like messing with people. Just being in a patrol car looking at people while parked at a red light is fun. Make eye contact, squint your eyes like you know what they just did, and watch them squirm and avoid all further eye contact. It makes my day fun. I know that everyone has something to hide. My job is to figure out what it is. I am good at figuring out what people are trying to hide. There’s really no such thing as “normal.” I am always amazed at what people will tell a police officer. I think people assume we are like priests, and it is all in confidence. It’s not. We go back to the office and talk about everything we saw and heard. Then we laugh at people. Usually it is all on audio as well so we listen to stupid things over and over. If we are lucky, it happened in front of a patrol car with its camera on. Then we get to watch it over and over.

By: Montana ACLU congratulates Bozeman for rescinding password policy | Hypercrit

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:23:43 +0000

[...] in the days after the story first broke in mid-June. Both of those interviews are referenced in my media coverage summary post. Published: August 3, 2009 Filed Under: Ethics, Social Networking Tags: ACLU : Associated Press [...]

By: E-mails to the city of Bozeman | Hypercrit

E-mails to the city of Bozeman | Hypercrit — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:30:53 +0000

[...] Jason linked to my A Letter to the City Attorney post. He also appropriated two paragraphs of my Aggregated Media Coverage of the Bozeman Privacy Fiasco post. I suppose I don’t feel bad about that, since it was just a collected set of publicly [...]

By: Bozeman, Montana, suspends requirement that applicants hand over social network passwords

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:22:04 +0000

[...] suggest such unchecked account sharing would violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. (Thanks to Hypercrit for compiling so much about this issue in a single [...]

By: Scott McAndrew

Scott McAndrew — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:00:08 +0000

The City has responded by discontinuing the practice until further notice. They published a press release and accompanied it with a video (which it looks like they also streamed live when it happened) on the City's website. Press Release: http://tinyurl.com/nulpv8 Video: http://tinyurl.com/mjkkre

By: Scott McAndrew

Scott McAndrew — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:37:01 +0000

When I was looking into this earlier today for a blog post of my own I was almost confused at how the City attorney seems to find no problem with requiring the person’s password. It just seems asinine that an attorney wouldn’t realize that this was clearly going beyond background check due diligence.