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ThisIsIt wrote:
j p o wrote:
I've got to believe reading an article on a public website is legal. As is how I found his house, through the county auditor's site and google maps.
His goal was to make a joke.
Who's goal? You seem to know more about it than is in that article?
If it's publically available information that a person has HIV and I'm an employee of a medical facility that has access to their records, that doesn't absolve me of HIPAA regulations and allow me reveal their medical information, and if I made that information public in an attempt to harm them that would be doxing (just a pretty poor attempt at it).
Again, I have no idea what sort of regulations govern govt. employees that have access to information such as addresses. I'd think that would be protected at some level, but not sure.
The person who made this tweet:
Addresses are not a secret and are not protected by any sort of confidentiality law, including in Missouri since I just found it on the public facing side of a government site.
Every single county I have looked in (and I am a nosy little fucker so I look a lot) has a county auditor's site that lets you do real estate searches. I found his property with nothing other than Lee's Summit and his last name. Jackson County, MO actually gives a lot less info than most. But I know when he bought it, what he paid, that his wife's name is on it and the address. I had to use Google Streetview for the picture. Here in Ohio many counties also have pictures on the auditor's site. Mine just has the overhead shot, You can usually also get all the property tax info (amount owed, when paid, etc.), square footage, a sketch, all the recent sales, ...
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.