[gizmo]

No, because there is a big difference between information being technically out there on the internet and that information being harvested and sold to advertisers and other scummy organizations.

If I post my email address here that doesn’t mean I’m fine with it being crawled and sold along with a million other email addresses to spammers.

Where people live, their relatives, their social security #, their employer, it’s basically all out there. But because it’s kind of hard to extract this info from public records we enjoy relatively safe pseudonymity.