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• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No they don’t need to know who is working where. The public just needs to know where the money goes through. Annual reports of a lot more companies should be public.

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• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a public servants thing–the public wants to know what they’re paying for, so public servant salary records are public.

  Various websites compile this information from the various state and federal sources. It’s wicked easy to find information on, say, every public servant with the title “librarian” in Fake County, Kentucky.

  Knowing their full name, you can look up their home ownership records in the county real estate or tax databases and ta-da, you know where they live. You also know if they work part-time at a different public library, so that’s convenient for stalking purposes.

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You don’t need to know who works at the library, you need to know the financial statements of the company together with the base on which the salary is based on.

    It always baffles me when I try to find annual reports of American companies and they are just not made public unless they are public. But for things like non-profits, or government owned companies it is especially important as well. Sadly it is easy to get a non-profit in the US, so people abuse that. Becoming a CPA in the US is also very easy compared to at least NL.

    Privacy doesn’t exist in the US unless we are talking about companies.

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• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think that’s something they have, yeah. It’s kind of unheard of to me.

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