Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00017)

>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.

MKR,

Yeah, all you say may be true, but we don't like our new participants to be
treated so roughly. I don't ever remember anyone insisting on knowing the
identity of who is writing before either. They can remain anonymous, if
they like. Why are you so heavy handed?

Brenda