[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Outsourcing Pet Owner Privacy for Profit
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:48:07 EDT
THIS IS SCARY!!!!
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Outsourcing Pet Owner Privacy for Profit
Lloyd Levine's mandatory castration proposal could lead to record corporate
profits -- pet owners are in the crosshairs
Has your personal information been databanked ?
Read it and weep, California pet owners. Last week we did a little
speculating on enforcement strategies for Lloyd Levine's radical proposal to
surgically sterilize every single pet dog and cat in the entire state of
California.
But that was then, and this is now. The beat goes on.
The Mother of All Databases is already a reality
PetData Inc., a private corporation in Irving, Texas, already collects
information on law-abiding citizens who happen to own pets. They say they
have already databanked information on 2 million residents in more than 20
U. S. communities, and four entire counties. Matthews, North Carolina,
just
joined the ranks of municipalities contracts with PetData.
Your personal privacy on the auction block
If you live in a community that outsourced animal licensing functions to
PetData, you may not even realize it yet. When you vaccinate your cats and
dogs for rabies, your vet forwards the details to PetData Inc.
Your name, your address, your contact information. And your dog's, or cat's,
veterinary information- -including reproductive status. It all goes into
for-profit PetData Inc.'s privately-owned, privately-controlle d database.
PetData proudly advertises its membership in the Humane Society of the
United States. It has no corporate privacy policy.
From rabies vaccination to Animal Control at the door --two shakes of a
lamb's tail!
These California communities already contract with PetData--
a.. Antioch
b.. Dana Point
c.. Fairfield
d.. Oakland
e.. Riverside
f.. San Clemente
g.. San Luis Obispo
h.. Torrance
i.. Vacaville
j.. Vallejo
k.. County of San Luis Obispo
l.. County of Solano
If you live in one of these California municipalities or counties, your
local elected officials struck a deal with PetData. For a modest fee,
PetData is doing the animal licensing enforcement for your community. If you
vaccinate an unlicensed pet, you're going to hear from PetData.
But it gets better.
PetData can kick back and watch the profits roll in
Matthews, North Carolina, is paying them $3.75 for each one year license
they collect on.
That's just the beginning.
Its the aftermarket sales that are going to be most valuable to PetData.
Insurance companies, landlords, breed bigots, pet supply marketers. . .Gonad
Nazis
PetData is building itself one hell of a marketable databank. Not just for
California, either. Check out the website. Albuquerque signed a five year
contract with PetData.
But in a world where greed is good. . . who cares? Its the American way.
Plus, your dog or cat is already neutered. You're not breaking any laws.
Life is good. Right?
Wrong.
The New York Times reports that its virtually impossible to find housing in
Manhattan--where housing vacancy rates hover in the very low single
digits--�
if your household includes a dog that weighs over 20 lbs. If you've got more
than one dog or cat? Fuhgeddaboutit.
Gawd knows insurance companies are itching to drop dog owners. They just
have to find 'em.
But Gonad Nazis on a mission ? Oooh, baby! PetData is marketing the reports
it can run from the data it collects. Need a list of households with intact
dogs or cats in Riverside, California? Shazaam!
Not paranoia. Not a conspiracy theory. They are coming for you. And certain
sensitive parts of your pets.
The Humane Society of the United States, the largest, wealthiest animal
extremist organization in the country--one that is dedicated to eliminating
pet ownership-- is already using PetData as a mouthpiece.
Will municipalities increasingly outsource law enforcement responsibilities
to profit-motivated private organizations? Ones with no public
accountability?
As a private corporation, PetData's employees are responsible to their own
Board of Directors. We the People don't get to vote on what they do, or how
they do it.
Meanwhile, back at the Nanny-State nursery
Poor, clueless Lloyd Levine.
Levine -- the pro-choice Democrat, representing a pro-choice constituency in
a pro-choice state -- who wants to deny pet owners any choices.
Levine-the-liberal -- now turned animal extremist poop-boy-- intent on
bringing fascism to the homes of California dog and cat owners.
Maybe freedom of choice and the right to privacy really don't matter to
Lloyd Levine. Or maybe he thinks its okay to deny these liberties to
"certain people", like pet-owning Californians.
But I'm thinking the 60+ percent of Californians that own cats and dogs
would kick his rear from one end of the state to the other if they knew what
AB 1634 really means to them, and to the pets they love.
Cathleen Bennett & Joe Guay
Rialto, Ca
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