How would you feel/react if your home address was announced & published very publicly the same way celebrities experience?
I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge.
Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk,
But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,
but the fact that they COULD and sometimes HAVE, is very concerning š
I wish sensitive information like that could be kept proprietary and wasn't so easy for anyone in the world to access.
You know as a matter of fact, it's much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life. Which is a good thing.
How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses š„ it's exhausting thinking about it.
itās much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life
Not entirely.
Ever since I bought my home a few years ago, I have been plagued by phone calls from random numbers of people who know my address, my first and last name, and my phone number, as far as I know in terms of personal information goes. The purchase price of my house is also public information which can be something I may not want everyone knowing as well.
I donāt think this should be legal. I understand somewhat why but itās still creepy and itās really obnoxious when the āinvestorsā are offering me half of what I purchased. Itās just spam at this point. And I donāt think people should have this much information about me. People I have never met in my life or chosen to do business with (my mortgage company and insurance provider are entities I have chosen).
To my knowledge, it mostly comes down to transparency. So that you know exactly who owns what in your area. The idea being that the public has a right to know how much of their region actually belongs to the citizens who actually live there.
Sadly it hasnāt done us much good because companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and people like Bill Gates are buying up all the homes and farmland and the public isnāt doing much to show their displeasure with this despite it being public information.
I suppose there's not much the public can do when the property sales happen in private and the only way anyone knows about it is after it's already happened.