"The FCC is fully transitioning to electronic correspondence and will no longer print or provide wireless licensees with hard-copy authorizations or registrations by mail."

They're so close, yet so far away.

In my country, the following information is available about each citizen, only a google search away:

Name, Personal Number, Address, Convictions, Income (Actually all taxation information), Vehicle ownership. In many cases, pet ownership.

Not searchable online, but an email away: All your grades (end of highschool through university). Drawings of your house for surveyor purposes (never had a reason to try this)

How differently we view privacy.

Do you think that lack of privacy is a good thing? If so you should update your profile with more information-- it's currently empty.

No, I think the situation is terrible here, in the pricacy sense. It worked when the community was more homogenuous, and more importantly before the internet. But the tradeoff transparency <-> privacy has shifted with the information age.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Fuck that.