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Re:Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking... by snuxoll on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @02:31AM (#17755960)
Voter registration records being a perfect example - anyone can look up my address because the state makes it incredibly easy to pop my name into a website and there it is.
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Re:Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking... by ghaff on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:32AM (#17757696)
Of course, historically you could look up the address for most people through the white pages.

But that doesn't change the basic point. If you were to ask if you should be able to look up anyone's physical address by typing their name into a web page, I suspect many people would say no. Yet, here we are.

(I also suspect that many would be really shocked at the amount of info available about them from "deep web" searches much less via a $20 online background check.

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