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

submitted 9 months ago by LemmyKnowsBest to c/asklemmy

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.