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> my birthday, most of addresses I've had since the mid-90s, every family member I've shared an address with since 1999, information on two vehicles I presently
by g051051 7y ago
> my birthday, most of addresses I've had since the mid-90s, every family member I've shared an address with since 1999, information on two vehicles I presently own and one former,
Your existence in the world isn't a secret. Every scrap of that is public information. You have a postal address to get mail, you register your car with your state to pay taxes on it, etc.
- mLuby 7y agoBut it really doesn't need to be. Maaaaaybe birth certificates should be public, but why should who owns what car be public? Or who lives at what address?
- tbyehl 7y agoWell, your point overlooks the points I was aiming for. 1. Any of those scraps of data have negligible value by themselves, but when they're aggregated and traded their value is vastly increased. 2. I don't have any choice in how those scraps of data were originally gathered and shared. Should I not to have an address? Pay my taxes? Register my vehicles?
- g051051 7y ago1. Yes, that's true. The value increases, in that the more data that's available, the better the decisions that can be made. 2. So? Why should you have a choice in it? Those things are classified as public records, available to anyone.