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.

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.

southsamurai,
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Depends on how it went. But I’m well armed, and my location honors the castle doctrine, and my town is right pissy about trespassing.

Back when I first got published, I was dumb enough to do so under my real name.

This has led to a few locals seeing my books are the local library, recognizing the name and finding me. They’ve all been quite polite, so no big deal.

But the truth is that anyone that showed up causing problems isn’t going to have a good time. My neighbors are mostly crazier than I am, and we’ve all had to show up for each other here and there when someone was acting a fool. So, chances are, whatever idiot it was would get run off long before I had to shoot them.

And, since I know most of the damn town to some degree, including the chief of police and the county sheriff, it isn’t like an outsider would even be in town long, unless they enjoy the hospitality of a jail. While the police are a problem overall, the local departments have guys in charge that are trying to fix that to some degree. But not to the degree that some assholes from the internet won’t end up being seen doing something they can get charged for.

Jesus, being real, I’m certain my one neighbor would likely kill someone if he saw them taking pictures around here without being warned in advance. He’s touchy. He might not start out planning it, but he’d be up in their face, and if they didn’t just leave, he would try to make them leave. If they fought back? He’s a bit touchy, but a whole lot trained.

But yeah, celebrities don’t have that kind of connection to their area like private citizens do, and not every private citizen does either. When I lived in the city, I tried being nice to my neighbors and got outright told to fuck off.

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@kbin.social avatar

Hahaha ah how pathetic.

satans_crackpipe,

Were you published for writing tough guy prose?

Mr_Blott,

But I’m well armed

*I’m an utter coward

Ftfy

southsamurai,
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works avatar

Aren’t you adorable.

Mr_Blott,

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    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,
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    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.

    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

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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