CA Gun Owners Information Leak

Taken from reddit. Not sure how many Cali folks would be in here, but just sharing the info. I'm sure this info wont be abused at all *sarcasm

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It's been a busy week. This is a bad news post. LINK

CA released a tool in the interest of "transparency" where gun data can be found. On the surface this is fine and doesn't appear to have anything personally identifiable.

Through a process that we will be not discussing, but is relatively easy and not even slightly hidden to do, you can access the names, addresses, and DOB's of all CCW holders in the state of CA. That includes judges, reserve officers, and random people like you and me. They also released information on FSC stats which has DOB and ID/DL numbers, and a file that includes DROS information, which has DOB, race, gender, and which dealer a given gun was purchased at since at least 2012. As you can see, this is devastating to the privacy of gun owners. It's fairly trivial to begin cross referencing data between these three documents to determine who owns what guns with decent accuracy, especially if they have a CCW that already says where they live.

To the best of my understanding, this is in violation of CA's own privacy laws. If not for us peasants, then definitely for the judges and reserve officers who are explicitly exempt from FOIA requests on this kind of data. I recommend contacting CRPA and the FPC ASAP with your concerns. Below is a form letter that you can use in your email if you'd like, as well as links to their contact information. To contact the FPC: LINK Firearms Policy Coalition 2Ahotline.com: FPC Legal Action Hotline - Submit a Report The primary objective of the Hotline and our legal action programs is to find legally-significant issues and bring cases that defend and advance fundamental rights and individual liberty.

2Ahotline.com: FPC Legal Action Hotline - Submit a Report

To contact CRPA: LINK / CRPA

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