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As of right now yes, the US government is making records public such as who you marry, where you live, in some cases your salary. It's pretty bad we don't conde

As of right now yes, the US government is making records public such as who you marry, where you live, in some cases your salary. It's pretty bad we don't condemn that first. All of this info is generally public because of our legal system requiring we be able to find people we need to sue. It's all old and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. Then again, when the millennials do that (you know when they are 60 years old), they will inevitably build in a way to be sue proof.

varispeed 6y ago
Many governments do censuses from time to time where they ask invasive private questions and people can't even object to that. So this is kind of a step forward to make it real-time rather having a snapshot of population. Plus not many people will actually file one, even if there is a fine for not doing so, simply because they don't exist in the system, but they may exist on Facebook.
reaperducer 6y ago
US government is making records public such as who you marry, where you live, in some cases your salary. It's pretty bad we don't condemn that first. Why? That's public information that's been collected for hundreds of years. It's used for all kinds of legitimate basic things such as genealogy and public health.
- rhacker 6y ago
  The change is that in the last 10 years all of that information has gone online. The creeps love all of that information. It has also lead to people trying to escape things be haunted by it. I know a guy that moved from CA to ID to escape someone trying to murder him. He said he's seen the guy's car drive by his new place... A drunk driver hit my car a few months ago. He got out of his car and denied the whole thing. Tons of witnesses backing me up. He was fucking scary. I'm just some dude that pulled waaaay off the road to avoid getting hit and now I have to be scared of him coming after me because my insurance is going after him. I'm sorry you still live in the bubble but revenge murders happen all the time. And 1/3 of all murders are totally unsolved. There are other records that are abused too. Manta - my favorite company to hate. This place had the habit years ago to purposefully mess up your "public" business listing. Wrong address, misspelled addresses, wrong phone number. It was on purpose because I was able to look at (at the time) all of the unverified businesses and compare it to Google's data. Every single Manta listing that wasn't claimed had a small mistake. Their goal was to take public info and mess it up a bit so that business owners would be frustrated enough to claim it and fix it. I really think we made a huge mistake making public records easily re-publishable online. I just think that each record needs to have a transaction associated with it.

varispeed 6y ago

Many governments do censuses from time to time where they ask invasive private questions and people can't even object to that. So this is kind of a step forward to make it real-time rather having a snapshot of population. Plus not many people will actually file one, even if there is a fine for not doing so, simply because they don't exist in the system, but they may exist on Facebook.

reaperducer 6y ago

US government is making records public such as who you marry, where you live, in some cases your salary. It's pretty bad we don't condemn that first. Why? That's public information that's been collected for hundreds of years. It's used for all kinds of legitimate basic things such as genealogy and public health.

rhacker 6y ago
The change is that in the last 10 years all of that information has gone online. The creeps love all of that information. It has also lead to people trying to escape things be haunted by it. I know a guy that moved from CA to ID to escape someone trying to murder him. He said he's seen the guy's car drive by his new place... A drunk driver hit my car a few months ago. He got out of his car and denied the whole thing. Tons of witnesses backing me up. He was fucking scary. I'm just some dude that pulled waaaay off the road to avoid getting hit and now I have to be scared of him coming after me because my insurance is going after him. I'm sorry you still live in the bubble but revenge murders happen all the time. And 1/3 of all murders are totally unsolved. There are other records that are abused too. Manta - my favorite company to hate. This place had the habit years ago to purposefully mess up your "public" business listing. Wrong address, misspelled addresses, wrong phone number. It was on purpose because I was able to look at (at the time) all of the unverified businesses and compare it to Google's data. Every single Manta listing that wasn't claimed had a small mistake. Their goal was to take public info and mess it up a bit so that business owners would be frustrated enough to claim it and fix it. I really think we made a huge mistake making public records easily re-publishable online. I just think that each record needs to have a transaction associated with it.