[kelukelugames]

It sounds like he violated a privacy issue. Probably looked up a friend or celebrity.

At my last job, a company that sells houses, people looked up each other's data for fun. I was kind of annoyed that one of the college hires found how much I paid for my house but that was the norm.

Okay, I should probably specify that I didn't tell anyone my address. People don't even know my legal name. I worked at and bought my house through Redfin. Redfin gets my info from my Redfin account. A little different than looking up an address on Zillow.

[lutefisk]

Housing data is public after you close on your house. What's there to be annoyed about?

[kelukelugames]

I worked at and bought my house through Redfin. He didn't know where I lived until he looked it up.

In their defense, privacy policy is probably better now.

[adanto6840]

Home sales, including home ownership data, is public in most (all?) of the US.

Even without providing your address, many US county government websites (the Recorder's office, Clerk's office, etc) allow for online lookups by name.

This is precisely how RedFin, Zillow, Trulia, and the like are able to obtain that same data...

[kelukelugames]

That is not how Redfin works. Nor is it how Redfin is spelled. Source: I worked there.

[uniformlyrandom]

Home sales is open data in US. You can look it up at Zillow. All you need is an address.

[kelukelugames]

I certainly didn't tell him my address.

Right now I can't tell if people are excited to tell me there are way to uncover my home address or they think those methods are socially appropriate and not an invasion of my privacy.

[toomuchtodo]

> or they think those methods are socially appropriate and not an invasion of my privacy.

Why would looking up a public record be an invasion of your privacy? If you want to hide it, buy your primary residence through an LLC incorporated in a state that doesn't disclose its members.

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