I live in Washington State, where up until recently, birth records for anyone could be requested by anyone. Address? If you own a home, already a matter of pub

I live in Washington State, where up until recently, birth records for anyone could be requested by anyone. Address? If you own a home, already a matter of public record. Phone #, not secret at all (heck it is part of many people's email signatures!) Talk to an investigative journalist some time and find out exactly what info can be had publicly. On a related topic, a few years back I went to a presentation from a member of TMO's marketing team. They mentioned how they used a ad-tech company to real time query the mortgage status of people who visited TMO's homepage in order to help dynamically determine what line of phones to show. Live in a nice neighborhood and didn't have a bunch of late payments? iPhones showed up. To be clear, their is a vendor out there with an API that offers up, in real time, what your current mortgage status is. "You" of course are determined by a bunch of other web trackers. A few weeks ago Best Buy sold off the the fact that I was in their store looking at robotic vacuum cleaners. (Either that or some app on my phone was using really good location tracking, but Android has seriously cut down on that, AFAIK background apps aren't granular enough anymore to get section-in-store data) While I was impressed with the ad tech that made that level of targeting possible, it also means I am not likely to step inside a best buy again.