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[HouseAtTheSea]

To me it seems like this is also a very US American thing. In Germany for instance it is common, even for the most tabloid papers to never publish full last names or clear pictures. Most of the time in pictures faces are made blurry etc.

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In Germany privacy is a real thing, in the US it's a figment of everyone's imagination.