Were you able to find information about these people? Do you feel that information of this sort should be publicly available on the Internet? Write a post on the appropriate discussion forum in your class about Internet privacy. What expectation of privacy should people have on the Internet? Do you feel there should be legal protections for privacy?

I was able to locate information on relatives and myself. Sometimes the information was more detailed in the case of my parents. I do not think information about a person’s addresses current or past should be posted. Your name, combined with your address, and month and year of birth, already provides enough information to be a victim of identity theft. If someone wanted to find someone and commit a crime against another person, the information is readily available for free. I think we should expect some amount of personal information to be covered under Internet privacy. Years ago when we all had telephone books (yellow pages), you could opt to not have your phone number and mailing address published publicly in this book. There was still some respect for a person’s expectation of privacy. Legally, sites should not allow access to personal information unless it has already been made public by the party being exposed.