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by harywilke 621 days ago
We used to get these big books delivered to our doorsteps that had your name, your address and your personal phone number. You could pay to opt out.
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If I published a list of all name and addresses, that's still different than "here is harywikle's full name and address". I imagine you wouldn't be too pleased?
The link between online identity and offline identity is a sacred barrier. And I'm not sure that archive.org breached that particular barrier.
That's the issue I take with the "phonebook" defense. It justifies doxing people by collecting and connecting publicly available information online. All the information is out there, it's all on a phone book, your email was published online, and so on, but the end result is clearly bad so something in the process should be handled more carefully.