I am never going to voluntarily fill out a census form again.
I've just found my name, address, phone number and my wife's details published online by the US government on their official census site, a site that has of course been trawled and indexed by Google and co.
What's the point of painstakingly trying to keep your personal information private on social networking sites and elsewhere on the Internet when the government publishes this and more, with no little boxes to uncheck if you object?
The aim may be for greater transparency or openness, but it really puts the row over Facebook's privacy policy into perspective.
I've just found my name, address, phone number and my wife's details published online by the US government on their official census site, a site that has of course been trawled and indexed by Google and co.
What's the point of painstakingly trying to keep your personal information private on social networking sites and elsewhere on the Internet when the government publishes this and more, with no little boxes to uncheck if you object?
The aim may be for greater transparency or openness, but it really puts the row over Facebook's privacy policy into perspective.
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