Privacy in Massachusetts

Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts, set up a website that inadvertently makes it possible to look up voter's home addresses. A journalist "entered the name of a woman with a restraining order against a stalker. Her full address popped up on the Patrick campaign Web site."

When a corporation compromises your privacy you can stop interacting with it and so deny it further access to information about you. But when the government releases information about you, you still have to provide the government with copious information about yourself.