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by raverbashing 512 days ago
> An address is already PII, whether you pseudonymize it with apartment numbers or not.

The full address is PII. But a street level address isn't necessarily, if it points to an appt block.

The problem with the mail boxes is that you're leaking that a "Mr. Smith" is living at that address. Now with Mr. Smith this is not such a big problem but if you're looking for "Mr. LessUnique" then it is

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If you're arguing that landlords should have to get written consent to post a tenant's name on the mail boxes and door bell, then I agree. If we're talking about tenants doing it themselves, then there's no privacy issue unless someone else collects that information and uses it for other purposes.