Good for you. I get a photo, work address, full work contact details, career summary, school, university, subject and grade at university (fortunately not too shabby), you can infer my age pretty accurately from the university details, the London borough I live in (and again you can reasonably guess which part), and my wife's name. Thats just on the first page of google. then google my wife's name and you get our home postcode. I haven't bothered doing it, but I know that with that data you can then access the online records of birth certificates, which will give you our full home address and the names and dates of birth of our children.
And that is with me being fairly careful to keep my net presence low. This is just the data forced out of me by being a partner in a law firm, having run for election, and having had children.
And that is the problem. You have to give up a lot of data to play any part in society. And that data is then out there for ever (the big break in terms of getting my data is data that the BBC is STILL displaying from an election in 2001. Which I lost anyway. Come to think of it I may e mail the Information Commissioner about that.)
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