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Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:34:36 -0800

zerosugar
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Google and stalking 

Here are several articles that highlight how google is used to stalk and another
article which shows Google has now taken steps to stop doxing. Stalkers
oftentimes try to justify their harassment of others by stating they are just
getting publicly available information. However, prior to Google, this
information wouldn’t have been easily accessible even if technically public.
Likewise, in other countries, citizens have the right to have information
removed from Google. Your number may be listed, but does this mean you want it
on a billboard on the expressway? 

Americans (at least private people who are not public figures) deserve a right
to privacy. 

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/google-has-stalking-problem

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2016/09/14/google_location_location_location/

https://www.wired.com/story/common-apps-domestic-abusers-stalk-victims/

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/27/23044951/google-search-results-personal-information-address-phone-number

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/google-remove-personal-information-address-phone-number-login-credential-password-doxxing-7891249/lite/

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Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:45:42 -0800

Andy from
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I hear you, however, I disagree.  If you want to be a hermit outside of society,
that is your right-- nothing is stopping you from moving to where no one can
find you, ever.  But when you live in an actual country and participate in
society, file a lawsuit, get married or divorced, have a birth or death, file a
will or trust, own an airplane, have a radio station, or otherwise make a record
required by law, you are exchanging the rights given or protected by your
society for disclosure of your information in some fashion.  Aggregating the
information and filtering it for relevance is the business of news and
publicity.  It's relevant when Taylor Swift travels because people care about
her and want a window into her life.  It's not the aggregator's problem if a
criminal does something crazy just because it's easier to go to the aggregator
than other sources.  Similarly, anybody can hire a private investigator and find
or even follow anybody, and it's not illegal unless it falls within the stalking
law.  I am a firm believer in freedom of information, and if people don't like
it, they can elect to live as hermits like some people already do.

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Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:59:19 -0800

zerosugar
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People also deserve to move on from divorces and stuff and not be precluded from
jobs and wear a Scarlett letter forever. Swift is a public figure and has money
to defend herself, but many other victims of doxing and stalking do not have her
resources.
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