"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 10:43:46 on Thu, 13 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:

Don't flatter yourself. If you put your home address in a public
repository that can be accessed by anyone with half a clue then more
fool you. Anyone with any sense registers their domain at their
accountants address or failing that a P.O Box.

I think you misspelt "anyone with something to hide..."

I think that's unfair

especially from a person who spends his spare time discussing the minutiae
of Stalker Protection legislation with government

Some stalking prevention measures can be very effective, but hiding where
you've been living for years (rather than where you moved to last week to
avoid the stalker) is extremely low on the list,

If I was only being stalked on the internet (as I understand some are, I
guess you can supply some figures)

I would damned well want to be sure that my real world address couldn't be
gleaned from my online account details.

and in our modern big-data[3] world virtually impossible anyway.

As someone with an entirely unique name, finding me from my real name would
be as easy as falling off a log.

It's why I don't post using it

OTOH, if you have a more common name (as you do) then people can only find
you with the help of extra information that you may have posted.

Unlike you I am careful not to do that either.

You are right - I am paranoid. I have no reason to fear being stalked,
internet or real world. But I do :-)

Yes, I'd like to see people thinking more seriously about whether people's
names and addresses should be scrapeable from Companies House,

finding my real world address from my company's name is by far the easiest
route, I agree

One reason for registering it at my accountant, I suppose

electoral roll, planning permission applications[1],

do they have names on?

and various other places[2] plus DVLA, Nominet, Verisign and so on. But
that's a lost cause at the moment because the law says it's preferable for
the public to be able to check up on who you really are, than to protect
these persons on the registers from stalkers.

I have lived/worked in a country where everyone can find out the name,
address, birthday, Id card number etc with no formality (some instantly for
free, some with a charge) No-one complains about this, they all think it's
normal.

What does annoy me is detective series from said country using the same
"rest of the world" storylines about having to struggle to find out this
information when it's all available to them in said database (but that's not
really relevant to the topic in hand)

tim