Scott MillerPublic records can be creepy. I found the home phone number for the guy that owns the LLC that pays the taxes on an abandoned property near me.
schr0dinger@Miller_Geek Let me bang on the warning drums:
http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance
@schr0dinger While still unsettling, private data collection and aggregation seems to me to be a wholly different thing than online searchable public records. From just an address I was able to find a full name, residential address, phone number, and information on family, using only publicly available information from tax records and the like, completely online in under an hour.
@schr0dinger And that, as someone with no experience looking at that kind of data.
@Miller_Geek I worry about corporations that are running around with 50,000 data point profiles of you and your proclivities for sale, trade or simple marketing and manipulation.
@schr0dinger Yeah, I have mixed feelings on a lot of the data collection that goes on. I want a lot of the services that can only be delivered with a lot of data on me, but IMO companies should not be allowed to share (paid or not) that data outside the org, and the data should always be anonymized with extremely restricted access to the database that can link a UUID to a specific human. It's the wild west right now.
@Miller_Geek Yes it is much easier from home these days. In the old days you had to go to the library and City Hall.