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Well that's not terrifying at all.
Our names, numbers, and home addresses used to be in a book delivered to everyone's door or found stacked in a phone booth on the street. That was normal for generations.
It's funny how much fuckwits can change the course of society and how we can't have nice things.
Right, but when everyone got phone books, those were only shared locally in the town. It would be pretty hard to figure out someones phone number from across the state/country without the internet unless you knew someone in the town.
You could also pay to be unlisted, which is a luxury long since gone. How cool would it be to make your data 'unlisted' by paying a small monthly fee.
It would be even cooler if we had a right to privacy
No doubt, lucky us, we get neither...