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JoshTriplettlast Wednesday at 8:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

Ideally, it should not be possible for random hateful people to easily get name/address records from local governments, but that's unfortunately not the world we live in yet.


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galleywest200last Wednesday at 9:40 PM

They could just buy it from data brokers.

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IncreasePostslast Thursday at 4:33 AM

I completely agree, but this isn't the fix. Corporations should be expected to behave like corporations. Having said that, I wouldn't argue against keeping it until we had some better privacy laws and practices in this country(/world)