The new voyeurism. I once lamented that complete transparency is the new privacy. And in the age of the internet, public records aren't needles in haystacks waiting to be discovered anymore. Here's an example: a quick and easy way to get the political affiliations of your neighbors, where they work and what their title is, at the Huffington Post.
I popped in a random address, a listing that I was going to tour. A listing whose new slogan could be, "You too can live just a mile down from the Mayor of Sunnyvale." :-)
Merge this into with what you can find on ZoomInfo and Facebook, and all those federal wiretapping laws are going to seem a little antiquated. Take care of your personal info, neighbors! Once in a database, it's someone else's to publish.
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