4 ms·

Amazing. I wonder what the benefit is of having information such as you home address public.

by eng_monkey 11y ago

marinabercea 11y ago
I'd argue there is none, because friends and family already know how to reach you. However, both sites display ads.
- mediascreen 11y ago
  I'm not saying there aren't drawbacks, but I can think of two benefits: 1. It makes some forms of investigative journalism easier. For example, there has been a lot of discussion about the potential problems of having most of the influential journalists in Sweden living within a very small "hipster" area in Stockholm. 2. E-commerce companies may decide to only ship to the adress where you are officially registered, making it harder to commit e-commerce fraud.
  - rhblake 11y ago
    On the other hand it's trivial to change someone's official address. Just send a certain form by mail to the tax agency. (Not sure if they send a confirmation to the old address; but if they do, the perpetrator only has to pick someone who's on vacation; hello Twitter & Facebook.)
    - petriw 11y ago
      If you have registered an email / phone number they will send a message there about your changed address. I don't know if they've done this yet but a while ago there were articles about them working on a way to disallow changing your address via the mail form: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sa-ska-id-kapningar-forhindras/ http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sa-ska-id-kapningar-forhindras/
staticelf 11y ago
I would say there is more issues than gains. But sometimes it's nice, I once found someones wallet and was able to find his phone number with the service. Called the guy, he came and picked up his wallet and gave me 500kr as thanks.
- arviewer 11y ago
  "Sometimes nice" is not good enough to do this.
  - tankenmate 11y ago
    It is largely a cultural difference; in Norway they also publish everyone's details along with their tax return data. In one country giving someone a pair of shoes is seen as a nice present, in another it is considered a grave insult. What you grow up with as a kid can have a big influence on what you consider acceptable. In my personal view as long as the rules apply the same to all then that's the largest problem solved. EDIT: fixed typo
spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
Presumably you can opt out in case an Ex decides to come round and harass /kill you. I am not joking when I worked for a Telco they used this scenario to empathize whey you should not do favours for friends and lookup peoples address.

Amazing. I wonder what the benefit is of having information such as you home address public.

marinabercea 11y ago

I'd argue there is none, because friends and family already know how to reach you. However, both sites display ads.

mediascreen 11y ago
I'm not saying there aren't drawbacks, but I can think of two benefits: 1. It makes some forms of investigative journalism easier. For example, there has been a lot of discussion about the potential problems of having most of the influential journalists in Sweden living within a very small "hipster" area in Stockholm. 2. E-commerce companies may decide to only ship to the adress where you are officially registered, making it harder to commit e-commerce fraud.
- rhblake 11y ago
  On the other hand it's trivial to change someone's official address. Just send a certain form by mail to the tax agency. (Not sure if they send a confirmation to the old address; but if they do, the perpetrator only has to pick someone who's on vacation; hello Twitter & Facebook.)
  - petriw 11y ago
    If you have registered an email / phone number they will send a message there about your changed address. I don't know if they've done this yet but a while ago there were articles about them working on a way to disallow changing your address via the mail form: http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sa-ska-id-kapningar-forhindras/ http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/sa-ska-id-kapningar-forhindras/

staticelf 11y ago

I would say there is more issues than gains. But sometimes it's nice, I once found someones wallet and was able to find his phone number with the service. Called the guy, he came and picked up his wallet and gave me 500kr as thanks.

arviewer 11y ago
"Sometimes nice" is not good enough to do this.
- tankenmate 11y ago
  It is largely a cultural difference; in Norway they also publish everyone's details along with their tax return data. In one country giving someone a pair of shoes is seen as a nice present, in another it is considered a grave insult. What you grow up with as a kid can have a big influence on what you consider acceptable. In my personal view as long as the rules apply the same to all then that's the largest problem solved. EDIT: fixed typo

spacecowboy_lon 11y ago

Presumably you can opt out in case an Ex decides to come round and harass /kill you. I am not joking when I worked for a Telco they used this scenario to empathize whey you should not do favours for friends and lookup peoples address.