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by a_square_peg 1022 days ago
The United States has a policy about government data - including weather (e.g. NOAA) and GPS, to be made freely available to the public. Your property data, collected at the county level, falls under this category so they are accessible to everyone.

However, I think Zillow would be prevented from publishing the owner name, since it would probably be classified as Personal Identifiable Information (PII).

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If you aren't following any regulations, PII can be published.

You only have to worry about PII if you have to be compliant with a standard that prevents it.

I just searched for my address on Google and the sixth link is from PropertyIQ and shows my name and my wife’s name as owners.