Originally Posted by
Major Robert Dump
Public information, which used to mean walking your butt down to the courthouse and getting stuff for 50 cents per page, is now easiluy available online.
Anyone on this forum, for 35 dollars, with your name and birthday, I could get every home you have ever lived in with utilities in your name, every criminal record, voting record, UCC record, bankruptcy record, special license record, vehicle registration, drivers license and the names and phone numbers of all the neighbors in your previous and current residences should I desire.
It's called data mining of public info, and in a few states its up to their supreme courts because although i copuld get all that info with a little footwork, some comapny is taking advantage of the free aspect and hitting counties and cities up for a broad ton of records and making profit from it.
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Anyway, like I said, 35 dollars, and I could have your life. It's what I do for a living, and it pays very well.
So NO, we don't have privacy in the traditional respect. If you want to stay inside and never leave the house and never use the computer and keep every utility in someone elses name, then yes you have privacy. If you are a normal, independent adult, then no you do not.
Seriously, someone try me. Tell me your real name and birthday and see what I can find out. It's so available I don't even care about protecting my identity anymore in the internet age because it is a lost cause. I assume the .ORG knows everything about me.
