[PSA] New Website TruePeopleSearch has Released a Substantial Amount of PII for Free

[Tamschi]

The US really needs better default privacy due to stuff like this.
Over here (Germany), this isn't really an issue: Almost any use of personally identifiable information has to be explicitly agreed with (especially for advertising purposes) and you've been able to seal your records at the citizen registry for as long as they've been allowed to give them out afaik.

[wauterboi]

[QUOTE=redBadger;52217534]You should contact her if anything to get answers.[/QUOTE]
While this delves into personal business, I personally wouldn't use the website for anything including personal reasons. I could use the website to easily contact people but I could only see such actions as the result of thinking far too much of the past. If people leave you behind, leave them behind. If you and another person split over something, keep it split until social interactions happen in a normal social channel. To do otherwise is to dip into harassment and stalking, imo.

Furthermore: answers are a bit overrated in that answers don't really change anything. Obsessing over answers isn't a good thing, and flinging yourself towards another person in hopes for answers just seems like a recipe for disaster, especially since I don't think answers will always satiate people's needs. Nothing can validate the feeling of being unwanted in the way people usually want. What answer would possibly be pleasant to hear? And how would the answer affect you and what you're doing in any way that is positive, save for the possible case in which you find out that the other person is just awful and not worth caring about?

[SEKCobra]

[QUOTE=Tamschi;52217665]The US really needs better default privacy due to stuff like this.
Over here (Germany), this isn't really an issue: Almost any use of personally identifiable information has to be explicitly agreed with (especially for advertising purposes) and you've been able to seal your records at the citizen registry for as long as they've been allowed to give them out afaik.[/QUOTE]

Melderegister können gegen (kleine) Gebühr abgefragt werden.

[Tamschi]

[QUOTE=SEKCobra;52217768]Melderegister können gegen (kleine) Gebühr abgefragt werden.[/QUOTE]

Yes, the Auskunftssperre against [I]that[/I] would require a good reason.

There's also the Übermittlungssperre though, which blocks the automatic bulk transmission to a bunch of other places (e.g. religious communities of relatives (but not ones own), political parties (e.g. for campaigning or congratulating to important anniversaries), address book manufacturers (may only be published in print though, not digitally) and the press (important anniversaries again)).
It's far from a complete lock-down, but it does work for (selectively) preventing your data from leaking out. I don't know whether this is federal or local law though. [URL="http://www.freistaat.bayern/dokumente/aufgabenbeschreibung/33997662504"]Here's Bavaria's page on it[/URL][URL="https://archive.is/QH4jX"],[/URL] which came up first in my search.