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In New Zealand you are required to attach your name and address to formal submissions responding to proposed public policy changes. A while ago there was a prop
by totetsu 4y ago
In New Zealand you are required to attach your name and address to formal submissions responding to proposed public policy changes. A while ago there was a proposal regarding The largest Harbor Bridge in the country. A lot of people attach their name to a submission supporting adding a cycling lane to the bridge , And all these peoples names and the address they used are just there online attached to their political opinion. I don’t know if people would expect their address to be public so they probably use their home address. It would be good if there were a way to report documents containing a lot of private information and suggest that Google doesn’t index them.
- themitigating 4y agoWas that information public anyway? How can you look up that data without google?
- totetsu 4y agoIt was probably public as part of the report on the submissions process, but fairly obscure if you weren’t looking for that information exactly. I found it be googling a family members name. Google provides the way to look it up using someone’s name as the starting point.
- diebeforei485 4y agoThis is also true of the US at the federal level - comments on regulations.gov for example.
- googlryas 4y agoThat's essentially what a phonebook is/was.
- tremon 4y agoYou had a phonebook that listed political preferences?
- googlryas 4y agoWell, no, but I assumed the meat would be in the name/address, not whether someone thinks yea/nay on a bridge accessory - especially because the former can be easily extracted en masse, whereas the latter would need to be individually analyzed and coded before it could be useful - which is generally a turn off to spammers/scammers who are playing a numbers game. And, in many (US) states, you can find out someone's affiliated party if any with just their name and address.