Say that under any thread about any billionaire and watch your comment get double digit downvotes
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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve never understood why things like this have to be a part of public record. Traffic accidents, traffic citations, bankruptcies, buying a house, and even getting divorced.
All of those are very personal things that should never be a part of public record. And even if they are, the PII should not.
spookex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t like the existence of billionaires anymore than the next reasonably-sane pleb does. But someone’s financial/social status should never be a consideration to their constitutional right of privacy. You’ll just have to find some other way to harangue them for their behavior.
baggins@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Bankruptcy should 100% be a public record.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why? To publicly humiliate a person? Not everyone is evil; people fall on hard times. It happens. A lot. Why should they be further harassed by predatory practices of being offered loans after they’ve hit the rock bottom of their financial world? Because the first thing that happened when I filed for bankruptcy was to be offered a mortgage loan.
baggins@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Because you’re asking a court to let you not pay back a bunch of money you borrowed. Is that not reason enough? I’m not sure what you taking out another loan during bankruptcy has to do with that.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Simple improvement: Add a fee to access the personally identifiable information. And make the record of accessing the information public.
Not perfect, but better.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I believe some things (like DMV records) are fee based. But the fee is nominal and wouldn’t stop any predator from doing bad things if they are so inclined. The only thing adding fees does is to financially incentivize keeping the data online and accessible to anybody who pays.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It might slow down people from doing it in bulk, though.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That wouldn’t fix anything. There would be a site reselling it for a lower price or a large subscription fee for a specific area.
Almost anything made by governments is public domain so it’s legal.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Tell that to my town clerk, charging $20 to take pictures of documents with your own phone. This is based on Sec. 1-212 part g (the bottom) of state law And, as a local history researcher, it bites ass.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s still public domain.