Public Personal Data

Addresses can lead you to public land and mortgage records, and phone numbers can lead you to names and addressed. I assume everyone can easily find that out about me once they know my name/phone number.

Isn't that public data? name, country, phone number, email...

Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license history, where I went to college, where I went to high school, every company I've worked for, my mom's name, my parent's names, and my gender. That's more than I expected that you could get, wow.One thing your site could do but doesn't is tell me WHERE it got that information, like exactly where. W

nowdays you can get personal data of almost everyone

Names and addresses are already public information in the US. It's not that big of a deal.

I agree with parent that this whole thread comes off as extremely hyperbolic.I've known this information about my friends and neighbors for the better part of the last decade. In most states this is public info and you can even look it up from a web form using name, zip, and dob.But now it's in an app so the world is ending.

Your data is already out there on the open Internet. I could probably find your blood type based off your HN account.

If you're going to put that much information out in public, isn't it somewhat expected that your information could easily be found.

Wait what? It's possible to pull up random people's social, loans, etc.?As in data with PII and not anonymized data?

It's not about the information you give, it's all those friends and family who signed up for it and uploaded their address book... They now have your phone number and email probably your date of birth, and even some photos of you.They are like the credit companies, they have information on you whether you allow them to or not.