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> Therefore you can use that website to get approximate location for literally everyone.

In America, before the Internet took off, every year everyone would get a book called the "white pages" that had the name, address, and phone number, of everyone who lived in their city.

The American view of privacy is that "openness makes for a civil society".

Although one can argue that hasn't been working out well for us lately ..

Likewise, marriages are publicly recorded and accessible online, as are all property purchases, births, deaths, and even property tax payments.

Though for some reason we consider income taxes to be super secret. Everything else is public, but not those! (How much cash someone put down to buy a house? Public. How much money that person makes? Not public. How much money everyone donates to politicians? Public.)




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