Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00015)

At 10:28 AM 11/1/97 -0800, you wrote:
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>
>The impulsive Ramadoss should not have, and I hope no one else ever will,
>post to this list the personal street address of anyone, without their
>permission.
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>Best,
>
>--
>Nicholas <> am455@lafn.org <> Los Angeles
> The cause of pain is vice; the cause of happiness is virtue.

As explained, the info that was posted was from public records and any one
could have just gone to one of the search engines looked at the nationwide
white residence and business pages and made a partial search and located the
information I posted. This can be independently verified by everyone on this
list. No invasion of any privacy is involved here.

Even if one has an unlisted telephone number, if anyone owns a home or other
property, then it is impossible to prevent anyone from making a search of
the many public data bases that are accessible via Internet for free. For
example, if I have an unlisted telephone number for my home, still my home
address can be located by doing a property search of the County property
records using my name. Not only will it give the address, it will also
provide a layout plan of my house, plus its value, as well as the values of
the homes in my neighborhood. Due to the personal property records
information on county tax data base, one can also find the business
affiliation. There are also other information that is available for free for
anyone on the internet and knows how to access them.
In some states it is even possible to track down what kind of cars one own
etc. All this is possible for free due to Internet technology and so I do
not think there is any invasion of anyone's privacy whatsoever. I still
believe each one of us has to decide on a case by case basis what info about
anyone one wants to post. No generalization is possible. My 0.02.

mkr

PS: When I made the search, it also yielded a telephone number in addition
to the address. Since I decided that it was not relevant at that time, I did
not post.