I feel second-hand fear & paranoia on behalf of celebs whose home addresses are public worldwide knowledge.

Anyone can google their address and show up/take pictures/lurk/stalk,

But thankfully most people would never think to do such a thing nor have any inclination to do so,

but the fact that they COULD and sometimes HAVE, is very concerning 😟

I wish sensitive information like that could be kept proprietary and wasn’t so easy for anyone in the world to access.

You know as a matter of fact, it’s much more difficult to find the address of acquaintances we know in daily life. Which is a good thing.

How terrifying it must b for celebrities, so they have body guards and a security detail and full-fledged security system at their houses 😥 it’s exhausting thinking about it.

    • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      I was going to jokingly post the coordinates to a White Castle in Chicago, but then I thought it might be interpreted as serious doxxing, and I could get permanently suspended.

      So just imagine that I did that, and it was really funny.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Here in Sweden you can just google a phone number or a name and get the address, a map of the area, an guide to find the right apartment, the persons gender, how many lives in the home, how many vehicles the person owns, the person’s age and birthday, the size of their aprtment, the aproximate value of their home, and more without any cost.

    This is normal here, and since everyone is listed we don’t really think about it.

    That being said, I would be quite annoyed if the press did an article on me where they published my home address…

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Slightly annoyed and then I’d move. I live moving and I travel light so it wouldn’t be a huge inconvenience.

    But I agree that it is terrifying and awful for people who prefer to put down roots or have their lifestyle tied up in being public figures.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Depends on how it went. But I’m well armed, and my location honors the castle doctrine, and my town is right pissy about trespassing.

    Back when I first got published, I was dumb enough to do so under my real name.

    This has led to a few locals seeing my books are the local library, recognizing the name and finding me. They’ve all been quite polite, so no big deal.

    But the truth is that anyone that showed up causing problems isn’t going to have a good time. My neighbors are mostly crazier than I am, and we’ve all had to show up for each other here and there when someone was acting a fool. So, chances are, whatever idiot it was would get run off long before I had to shoot them.

    And, since I know most of the damn town to some degree, including the chief of police and the county sheriff, it isn’t like an outsider would even be in town long, unless they enjoy the hospitality of a jail. While the police are a problem overall, the local departments have guys in charge that are trying to fix that to some degree. But not to the degree that some assholes from the internet won’t end up being seen doing something they can get charged for.

    Jesus, being real, I’m certain my one neighbor would likely kill someone if he saw them taking pictures around here without being warned in advance. He’s touchy. He might not start out planning it, but he’d be up in their face, and if they didn’t just leave, he would try to make them leave. If they fought back? He’s a bit touchy, but a whole lot trained.

    But yeah, celebrities don’t have that kind of connection to their area like private citizens do, and not every private citizen does either. When I lived in the city, I tried being nice to my neighbors and got outright told to fuck off.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    Syndrome says in the incredibles, “when everyone is super, nobody is”.

    In an ideal world, without stalkers, ad companies, doorstop marketers and selling data, it would be much less of an issue if everyone’s addresses were public - there would be nothing special about it since everyone’s equally exposed.

    In today’s world though, I’d be terrified AF!

    I wonder how many celebrities go to counselling/therapy, looking at all the horrible things people say online, as well as death threats, creeps etc. Must be miserable

    Some random but related food for thought: consider Ebay, Amazon and other marketplaces - you’re handing over your address, email and phone number to a random seller (on Ebay this includes your order history, public on your profile) and any one of these could sell your private data onwards, potentially exposing some of your online identity to data brokers for advertising or other malicious purposes. Depending on your threat model, online shopping could be a pretty risky thing to use. Amazon used to also make users’ wishlists public by default, not sure if that is still a thing

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Google has a feature where it’ll tell you if your personal information shows up in their index and you can request they remove it from being served.

    I can say that my personal information has shown up a few times.