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Um, no. Your birthday is certainly not private information. Births are openly published in the local paper and online. Not to mention stuff like this - http://w

Um, no. Your birthday is certainly not private information. Births are openly published in the local paper and online. Not to mention stuff like this - http://www.wfsb.com/story/26835982/website-displaying-voters-personal-information-has-right-to-do-so http://www.wfsb.com/story/26835982/website-displaying-voters...

unityByFreedom 9y ago
Um, yes. It certainly is. I don't want it released publicly, nor have I consented to release it to any website. If there are websites out there sharing that private information, they're doing it without my consent.
- Gargoyle 9y ago
  You may consider it private, but that doesn't make it legally private. Which is the kind of privacy under discussion in this thread.
  - unityByFreedom 9y ago
    Nobody has restricted this conversation to the legal sense. Is your daily schedule, when you go to work,drop off your kids, what route you take to work protected legally? No, but you probably wouldn't want to share that information publicly either. Yet, in the future, a data breach could reveal such information, and a business could seek to resell it.
- deleted 9y ago
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- creepydata 9y ago
  Did you read The link I posted? If you are a registered voter in Connecticut your birthday is public information by law.
  - unityByFreedom 9y ago
    Yes. One state doesn't mean all states. Also, it's tbd whether this website will be allowed to continue to operate, > "According to the webmaster, there is a class action lawsuit that is trying to have the site shut down" The article also argues that many types of workers ought to seek removal of their name from this list in the interest of personal security. The story is making the case that this should be considered private information.
- leemailll 9y ago
  If you don't want it released publicly, a better chance is to ask you parents didn't do it when gave you birth. No offense, many places, like small towns will list birth of child on local newspaper if parents sign a form after birth in the hospital among a pile of forms.
  - unityByFreedom 9y ago
    It may be discoverable in that way, but that doesn't mean government entities are or should be disclosing names with birthdays en masse. Certainly not the entire country's all at once, which is what the RNC appears to have done.

unityByFreedom 9y ago

Um, yes. It certainly is. I don't want it released publicly, nor have I consented to release it to any website. If there are websites out there sharing that private information, they're doing it without my consent.

Gargoyle 9y ago
You may consider it private, but that doesn't make it legally private. Which is the kind of privacy under discussion in this thread.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  Nobody has restricted this conversation to the legal sense. Is your daily schedule, when you go to work,drop off your kids, what route you take to work protected legally? No, but you probably wouldn't want to share that information publicly either. Yet, in the future, a data breach could reveal such information, and a business could seek to resell it.
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creepydata 9y ago
Did you read The link I posted? If you are a registered voter in Connecticut your birthday is public information by law.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  Yes. One state doesn't mean all states. Also, it's tbd whether this website will be allowed to continue to operate, > "According to the webmaster, there is a class action lawsuit that is trying to have the site shut down" The article also argues that many types of workers ought to seek removal of their name from this list in the interest of personal security. The story is making the case that this should be considered private information.
leemailll 9y ago
If you don't want it released publicly, a better chance is to ask you parents didn't do it when gave you birth. No offense, many places, like small towns will list birth of child on local newspaper if parents sign a form after birth in the hospital among a pile of forms.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago
  It may be discoverable in that way, but that doesn't mean government entities are or should be disclosing names with birthdays en masse. Certainly not the entire country's all at once, which is what the RNC appears to have done.