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There was a time when people moving to a new place would voluntarily list their names, phone number, and residential address in a public directory. We have los
by ummonk 7y ago
There was a time when people moving to a new place would voluntarily list their names, phone number, and residential address in a public directory.
We have lost a lot of privacy in recent decades but some expectations have actually changed towards more privacy.
- walrus01 7y agoWell, there was also a time when the SS7/PSTN phone network was the only way to get in contact with people quickly. And by "quickly", I mean that almost nobody carried a cellphone, so leave a message on their cassette tape based answering machine if they're not home. What's interesting to me now is how blithely people give up a lot of their personal privacy to random social media companies.
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