Well, if you live in California, there’s now a map telling you how to find their houses.

I feel conflicted about this. On the one hand, this information has always been made public – plus, if someone cared enough about getting rid of our rights to donate money, shouldn’t we know who they are, so we can protect themselves? Also, the people making these maps are private people. It is not the government infringing on privacy.

On the other, technology makes this information transparent in a way it never was before. Sure, we might secretly chuckle over the idea that a pro-Prop 8 donor might be given a hard time by their local lesbian couple.

But what if there was a map of ANTI-Prop 8 donors – and one of them lived in a tiny town in Texas, or Alabama, and then became a target for harassment?

I’m all for accountability and openness. On the other hand, I worry that this sort of information could chill civil participation by people who are worried about getting harrassed because of their donations. There’s a reason why our votes are private – should the money we give be private as well?

What do you think? Is there some creative solution to this, short of making this information inaccessible to the public?