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How is the address data not valuable? Even dangerous.
by halukakin 11y ago
How is the address data not valuable? Even dangerous.
- nacs 11y agoI don't know about other countries but in the US, there are things called Whitepages which list names, addresses and phone numbers of the majority of people/businesses. Address data is pretty worthless considering how many places you can get such data.
- fluxquanta 11y agoIt's 2016 -- forget the Whitepages. Most people publicly update all of this information everyday, multiple times per day, through their social media accounts.
- rudolf0 11y agoThey usually don't publish their street address on social media.
- dublinben 11y agoYou're right, they usually post a GPS location that is even more specific.
- rudolf0 11y agoGood point. I think most people don't do that, though, since it's typically "opt-in".
- fluxquanta 11y agoPeople do opt in. People outside of the tech game don't think of these as making themselves more vulnerable -- they only see convenience (or just blindly click yes to anything). I had a Twitter app (Tweetcaster?) that had a "show local tweets" option, and was amazed by how I could determine the individual dorm rooms tweets were coming from on a nearby college campus.