# Is it wrong to publish people's home addresses in a catalogue?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 9, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wrong-to-publish-peoples-home-addresses-in-a-catalogue/584846 "2011-06-09T12:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-wrong-to-publish-peoples-home-addresses-in-a-catalogue/584846/21 "2011-06-13T01:06:03Z")

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Oh hell no. No personal ID information should ever leave your hands unless you have a large legal budget.

My neighborhood association publishes a handbook of everyone’s name, address, and phone number in our neighborhood. It’s supposed to be used by the homeowners only but they also have a copy online. (duh!) I opted to leave my name and number out of the directory.

Several years ago one of those “city directory” people (not the phone book) were going door-to-door soliciting information about the homeowners to publish in their directory. I found my full name, address, and unlisted phone number in the book. That is when I discovered they had assholes go door-to-door and my NEIGHBORS had given them my information. I was seething with anger.

In my job, I have the pleasure of meeting some unsavory types every once in a while and I don’t always make everyone happy. The last thing I want is to have my name and addy published somewhere.

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