FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses

Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by lldbg on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:47PM (#25308548)

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.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by niij on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:26PM (#25311082)

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.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by lldbg on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:11AM (#25313618)

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.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by niij on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:22AM (#25315169)

I'm sorry to hear that.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by pcdoodle on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:39AM (#25312651)

Fuck that.

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