There isn't a material difference between those two things. What precisely is private information - outside of information stored solely inside your head. Even medical records can be made public through certain actions so pretty much everything is potentially public information.

Making things easier to find can be a threat - it's why there's a lot of compelling discussion around websites that take rosters of arrest records and post them on big scary websites along with pictures and lurid descriptions of the person's crime - offering to remove the information for a fee.

Making things easier to find can be a threat, yes. I guess that's why they're moving towards allowing things like this to be removed.

Fascinating, isn't it, that linking to a movie or cracked software is something they have to stop linking to upon request no questions asked by law, but if your personal information or financial information or login credentials are posted somewhere, you gotta prove you'd be harassed...

The US needs a GDPR-equivalent law.

Google buys 90% of credit card transactions. That's not public information.

And the only way to opt out of it is to not use credit cards.

Do they publicly index this information tho?

Does it matter?

Is it somehow OK for someone to build a dossier on another person as long as they use that information for their own purposes?

Well, yes. Because you're talking about a different scenario than what is going on here.

Yes? Are you telling me I can't know things about people?

You won't get your mitts on their video rental records. We need another embarrassing data breach to get more protections.

Is this still true? Nobody goes to Blockbuster to rent videos. Videos are streamed to you on a plethora of devices. Does the video rental regulations apply to YouTube sharing your video selections? PornHub? Netflix?

It is not free as in gratis, but it is publivally available, just as tomatoes are publicly available at stores.

> Google buys 90% of credit card transactions.

Source, please.

Bloomberg reported (paywall) and the web plagiarized:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Google%20buys%2090%25%20of%2...

The "90%" might not be easily sourced, but also not the crux.