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.

lemann,

Syndrome says in the incredibles, “when everyone is super, nobody is”.

In an ideal world, without stalkers, ad companies, doorstop marketers and selling data, it would be much less of an issue if everyone’s addresses were public - there would be nothing special about it since everyone’s equally exposed.

In today’s world though, I’d be terrified AF!

I wonder how many celebrities go to counselling/therapy, looking at all the horrible things people say online, as well as death threats, creeps etc. Must be miserable

Some random but related food for thought: consider Ebay, Amazon and other marketplaces - you’re handing over your address, email and phone number to a random seller (on Ebay this includes your order history, public on your profile) and any one of these could sell your private data onwards, potentially exposing some of your online identity to data brokers for advertising or other malicious purposes. Depending on your threat model, online shopping could be a pretty risky thing to use. Amazon used to also make users’ wishlists public by default, not sure if that is still a thing

LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

The risks of online shopping have been discussed before and those interfaces are highly encrypted, So while it’s understandable if people want to avoid it entirely, we really don’t need to be too paranoid about online shopping.

regarding the Amazon wish list defaulting to public awhile ago, yeah there was a big uproar about that. I hope Amazon straightened things out with that.

Limeey, (edited )

Seems like a lot of people are unaware of white pages

LemmyKnowsBest, (edited )

Yeah, phone books..

In the olden days it was easier to look anyone up, the phone company would deliver a new phone book to everyone’s front door twice a year, how could we not all be at least a little fascinated to explore through all those pages and look up people we know from school etc? 😋

nowadays people have to go out of their way with an intention in their mind to go to a website and look people up on whitepages.com or peoplefinder.com etc and last time I noticed years ago, a fee is required to use those kind of sites.

EchoCranium,

I remember back in grade school (early 80’s) we had lessons about how to use a phone book. Now I’m surprised if I ever see a new one dropped off at the front door.

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.

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.

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?

Varyk,

Slightly annoyed and then I’d move. I live moving and I travel light so it wouldn’t be a huge inconvenience.

But I agree that it is terrifying and awful for people who prefer to put down roots or have their lifestyle tied up in being public figures.

TechNerdWizard42, (edited )

No celebrity owns the house the live in or stay in. No truly rich person does.

An LLC or more likely a trust owns the house, land, everything they have. And those are owned by other LLCs and Trusts so you can’t follow the chain. If someone is doxxed, they go somewhere else. Many places are rented out (think Airbnb) all the time. If you get caught, your agent will “leak” that’s just where you were vacationing and the next paparazzi photos will be in different locations on purpose.

Then you do what many do, and buy their real homes in countries that take privacy seriously. When you want an escape, you fly to your real house. No such thing as papparazi, security issues, or anything.

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