I think this mainly seems bad because of the risk of false positives. If someone has a legitimate outstanding debt, then everyone who calls him should be made a

I think this mainly seems bad because of the risk of false positives. If someone has a legitimate outstanding debt, then everyone who calls him should be made aware of that - all of them are at risk of being suckered into lending him more money otherwise. I've been stung by entering an agreement with someone who had failed to repay his debts - guess who the next person he didn't pay was? Western countries have sex offenders registers for the same reason.