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Odd? Not every business is a social media platform. Businesses shouldn’t keep more data than they need (including/especially biometrics) but there are plenty of

Odd? Not every business is a social media platform. Businesses shouldn’t keep more data than they need (including/especially biometrics) but there are plenty of legitimate reasons why many businesses will absolutely need your name, address etc.

Blikkentrekker 6y ago
There are reasons why they need it, because the same politicians that claim to be so concerned about privacy do not create the frameworks to obviate those reasons. It would be trivial to implement a scheme where I might requæst at the postal service a randomly generated code that maps to my address and name. The postal service is the only one that actually needs my address, and they will ensure that every package onto which that sterile code is printed, will arrive at my doorstep. Thus, the sender need not know my name and address, and can send me mail regardless but can never find out where I physically live. If those politicians truly care as much about privacy as they say they do, such a scheme would be implemented decades ago, for it is not expensive nor technologically difficult to do so at all. That they are not actively searching for mechanisms that allow businesses to function without people having to surrender their location of residence, many of which being rather simple to solve, makes me think they do not care as much as they claim they do. Or rather, as is common, they only care when it concern new and scary technology, but addresses are old, and therefore not scary. When a man utter concern about various dangers, what he is most afraid of, is often simply change.
- throwaway744678 6y ago
  When ordering online, you don't actually which carrier will be used: all carriers would then need to have access to the database of random codes -> physical addresses... Not much of an improvement, and lots of room for failed deliveries! Better use a PO box, or a parcel drop-off point. Note that the actual reason businesses legally need a name and address is for invoicing, though.
  - Blikkentrekker 6y ago
    > When ordering online, you don't actually which carrier will be used: all carriers would then need to have access to the database of random codes -> physical addresses... Not much of an improvement, and lots of room for failed deliveries! Better use a PO box, or a parcel drop-off point. There is a great deal of improvement if only registered carriers have access opposed to every single party whom one might receive a package from, including simple private citizens. That I need to tell a man where he might physically locate me, ere he can send me a package, is a problem that need not exist. > Note that the actual reason businesses legally need a name and address is for invoicing, though. This too could be solved in many ways. Governments can easily devise systems where payments can happen without leaking this information, and that the information can only be forced to be surrendered in the case the company has a complaint of non-payment.

Blikkentrekker 6y ago

There are reasons why they need it, because the same politicians that claim to be so concerned about privacy do not create the frameworks to obviate those reasons. It would be trivial to implement a scheme where I might requæst at the postal service a randomly generated code that maps to my address and name. The postal service is the only one that actually needs my address, and they will ensure that every package onto which that sterile code is printed, will arrive at my doorstep. Thus, the sender need not know my name and address, and can send me mail regardless but can never find out where I physically live. If those politicians truly care as much about privacy as they say they do, such a scheme would be implemented decades ago, for it is not expensive nor technologically difficult to do so at all. That they are not actively searching for mechanisms that allow businesses to function without people having to surrender their location of residence, many of which being rather simple to solve, makes me think they do not care as much as they claim they do. Or rather, as is common, they only care when it concern new and scary technology, but addresses are old, and therefore not scary. When a man utter concern about various dangers, what he is most afraid of, is often simply change.

throwaway744678 6y ago
When ordering online, you don't actually which carrier will be used: all carriers would then need to have access to the database of random codes -> physical addresses... Not much of an improvement, and lots of room for failed deliveries! Better use a PO box, or a parcel drop-off point. Note that the actual reason businesses legally need a name and address is for invoicing, though.
- Blikkentrekker 6y ago
  > When ordering online, you don't actually which carrier will be used: all carriers would then need to have access to the database of random codes -> physical addresses... Not much of an improvement, and lots of room for failed deliveries! Better use a PO box, or a parcel drop-off point. There is a great deal of improvement if only registered carriers have access opposed to every single party whom one might receive a package from, including simple private citizens. That I need to tell a man where he might physically locate me, ere he can send me a package, is a problem that need not exist. > Note that the actual reason businesses legally need a name and address is for invoicing, though. This too could be solved in many ways. Governments can easily devise systems where payments can happen without leaking this information, and that the information can only be forced to be surrendered in the case the company has a complaint of non-payment.