Public Data Privacy

It's archival of public information. If this is a concern, then maybe that information shouldn't be made public in the first place.

This is different, this is about personal information being made publically available.

exposing "civilian"'s private data doesn't help their PRno soup for you!

This is all public information already. There is no invasion of privacy.

Not really. In an open society, courts and government bodies will sometimes have to make private things public if there's a compelling public-interest reason for doing so. That's needed for public oversight, and all that can be asked is that reasonable actions are taken to minimize any private harm.In this case, the email was redacted to hide the identity of its author, so I don't there's any real problem with making it public.

I'm just responding to the claim of the parent comment that public stuff on the internet should remain public... This information is expressly NOT public, not sure why the expectation is that everyone should be able to see it.

There's a public interest exemption, so of it's news you might be in a stronger position. But yeah, generally.

I came here to make the same comment. I don't like what this company is doing, but the information is already public. People should know that anyone can read your public data and assemble it. It is not very different to living in a town. In a town everyone knows public, and no so public, information about everyone. Police, or a private investigator, can always go and interrogate the butcher or the hairdresser and ask information about you. They can also read the local gazette. The differenc

Yes, that's how it reads to anyone in the know, but how does it read to the general public? To you future employers? To your electorate, should you ever run for office?You're basically saying that you're happy for someone to collect information that -- at least in prudish Britain -- could be easily used against you. I'm amazed that so many HN users seem fine with this, given the normal outcry when Google wants to gather something as trivial as your geo-location.

It was unredacted when originally posted. I didn't see that the author later changed it. But just because there's a public record of some information doesn't mean it's not a violation of privacy to disseminate it.