This is a trap for the unwary. These data dumps are really data junk. The data is of very little use to someone on a date, etc, because of all of the holes in the databases used, but of great value to stalkers and sexual offenders. Unfortunately, the criminal data in these things that a person would use to protect themselves is full of holes, but the data that a stalker needs such as addresses, etc is not bad. Although the data is public, the fact that new technology has made it easy to aggregate and disseminate is raising new privacy issues. I don’t think public agencies envisioned that public data could be this available and so much money could be made. I would not be surprised to see legislation to shut down these sites, as well as removal of identifiers and the data itself. I think public agencies are going to find ways to limit the data in the future. Making records public does not mean that it has to be so easily assessable so that innocent citizens are put at risk and identity theft becomes much easier.

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