# Personal privacy: a thing of the past

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/338872>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 7, 2006, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/338872 "2006-01-07T07:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/338872/21 "2006-01-09T12:00:04Z")

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No, it’s because nobody in the IRS really gives two shits about you or your personal business. You are a number, a folder, one of a thousand accounts to be fixed. The people pulling this data care a whole lot about you and your personal business, that’s the entire reason they are asking for it. To dig into your personal life.

I don’t see any societal good coming out of allowing this data to be sold. At least the IRS will get tax cheats to pay their taxes, easing the burden on the rest of us.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/338872/22 "2006-01-09T12:28:10Z")

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Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates.

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-privacy-a-thing-of-the-past/338872/23 "2006-01-18T16:08:22Z")

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> [@suezeekay](#):
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> I’ve posted before my concerns about loss of privacy. I last spoke about being able to locate people, along with all kinds of personal information, utilizing the numerous locator services available online. Now we find out our phone records are for sale.

Nothing new when there is money to be made.  
The question is: “Are the phone service providers making the records availabe to third parties?”  
If not how are those selling this information acquiring it?\*\*  
Write your representative, senators, and the FCC insisting they make it a criminal offense to supply this information to third parties without a court order/subpeona.\*\*

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