How would you feel/react if your home address was announced & published very publicly the same way celebrities experience?

I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge.

Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk,

But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,

but the fact that they COULD and sometimes HAVE, is very concerning 😟

I wish sensitive information like that could be kept proprietary and wasn’t so easy for anyone in the world to access.

You know as a matter of fact, it’s much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life. Which is a good thing.

How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.

corsicanguppy,

We called it a phone book.

WhyJiffie,

Fortunately that’s optional

calypsopub,

Exactly. As a Boomer who grew up in a small town with telephone “party lines” I just can’t be arsed to care. Come look in my windows if you need a thrill.

stoy,

Here in Sweden you can just google a phone number or a name and get the address, a map of the area, an guide to find the right apartment, the persons gender, how many lives in the home, how many vehicles the person owns, the person’s age and birthday, the size of their aprtment, the aproximate value of their home, and more without any cost.

This is normal here, and since everyone is listed we don’t really think about it.

That being said, I would be quite annoyed if the press did an article on me where they published my home address…

Orbituary,
@Orbituary@lemmy.world avatar

Well, la-deee-daa! Look at you, with all your safety and security and lack of fear. I bet you even think you’re European or something snooty like that.

(jokes from an envious American)

LemmyKnowsBest,

You fortunate Swedes have really got it goin on

ani,

The phone book is a thing, you know?

LemmyKnowsBest,

You are the fifth person to make the same comment and we’ve already discussed this.

DrBob, (edited )

And this is the 3rd or 4th dickish comment you’ve made about it.

Son_of_dad,

Celebrities could retire into obscurity, go away and be forgotten, nobody would bother them. But they want and NEED to be hounded, stalked, chased and be the center of attention.

Jimmyeatsausage,

If you own your home, it’s a matter of public record in most states. Hell, I once used to resolve a disagreement my wife and I were having over our neighbor’s name. Just looked up the property address on your county assessors website… They list the owners, when the property was last sold, the appraised value and taxes, and a bunch of other stuff.

jubilationtcornpone,

Our county even makes marriage licenses searchable online.

roofuskit,

You mean, the phone book?

LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

Yeah popular comment

NoneYa,

it’s much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life

Not entirely.

Ever since I bought my home a few years ago, I have been plagued by phone calls from random numbers of people who know my address, my first and last name, and my phone number, as far as I know in terms of personal information goes. The purchase price of my house is also public information which can be something I may not want everyone knowing as well.

I don’t think this should be legal. I understand somewhat why but it’s still creepy and it’s really obnoxious when the “investors” are offering me half of what I purchased. It’s just spam at this point. And I don’t think people should have this much information about me. People I have never met in my life or chosen to do business with (my mortgage company and insurance provider are entities I have chosen).

LemmyKnowsBest,

I understand somewhat why but it’s still creepy

What ARE the reasons why this is legal?

NoneYa,

To my knowledge, it mostly comes down to transparency. So that you know exactly who owns what in your area. The idea being that the public has a right to know how much of their region actually belongs to the citizens who actually live there.

Sadly it hasn’t done us much good because companies like Blackrock and Vanguard and people like Bill Gates are buying up all the homes and farmland and the public isn’t doing much to show their displeasure with this despite it being public information.

LemmyKnowsBest,

I suppose there’s not much the public can do when the property sales happen in private and the only way anyone knows about it is after it’s already happened.

PsychedSy,

Google has a feature where it’ll tell you if your personal information shows up in their index and you can request they remove it from being served.

I can say that my personal information has shown up a few times.

ColeSloth,

Am I rich like they are?

LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

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    ColeSloth, (edited )

    Yeah. That’s bs though. Being rich and worried about it while you can afford security and large amounts of property and several vehicles and exclusive clubs and restaurants etc is 100% different than having to deal with the same issues, but with $60k a year instead.

    Famous celebrity is a trade off. You’re giving everyone here only the option of taking on the bad portion, while having none of the good portion.

    Also remember, most celebrities CHOOSE their fame/lifestyle. They want rich Famous with those issues over $60k and no fame and fortune.

    LemmyKnowsBest,

    Your giving everyone here only the option of taking on the bad portion, while having none of the good portion.

    You’re examining this deeper than my original question. All I asked was: how would you feel if everyone in the world knew where your house is and where you sleep every night?

    ColeSloth,

    Slightly disturbed, I guess. It’s not very hard to find where a person lives if you want to, though.

    YeetPics,
    @YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

    I like how you delete every comment you have that goes negative and even edit the text to be “#” so you can’t get called out for your bad takes.

    dojan,
    @dojan@lemmy.world avatar

    Welcome to living in Sweden.

    With a quick Google search you can find someone’s home address, income, social security number, birthdate, amount of owned vehicles, political work (if any), size of home, criminal record, and much more!

    It fucking sucks for it all to be public information, but websites dedicated to collating it all under one roof is even worse.

    angrymouse,

    Dafuq, I always thought that personal data was serious business in Sweden, unpleasant surprise

    Annoyed_Crabby,

    That’s why i like Daft punk, no one care about them until they put on the mask.

    RedditWanderer,

    Their aspiration/ income is directly tied to how popular they are. You can’t have both. They have enough money to hide if they please

    Horsey, (edited )

    You mean like the phonebook?

    Hildegarde,

    The nice thing about being a regular person is that very few people have any reason to care.

    If you buy something online, the merchant has your name and address. They could come to your house, but why would they?

    LemmyKnowsBest,

    yeah thankfully I don’t worry about such things whatsoever, but we’ve all heard in the news once in awhile these things do happen, for example a construction worker on a house came into the window of a sleeping child’s bedroom one night and kidnapped her

    IonAddis,
    @IonAddis@lemmy.world avatar

    The nice thing about being a regular person is that very few people have any reason to care.

    One crazy ex (or, hopefully ex) and one’s tune changes quick.

    Or sometimes you’re born into a shit family, and THEY stalk you when you try to get away.

    dingus,

    In the internet age, it’s incredibly easy to look up personal information about people like their address. Sorry, but you likely are easily searchable just like the rest of us.

    LemmyKnowsBest,

    yep, all my lifetime addresses are publicly searchable and easy to find online, but you’d be hard pressed to find me because I don’t live at any of those addresses.

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