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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 10 hours agoSo uh, when you buy something online… Where do you deliver it to, and how confused is the ups driver that you keep sending packages to 123 Fake Street for the last decade?
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Honestly, I know a lot of people that do, but delivery address is less of a problem than other personal information.
I always make fake derivative versions of my names for anywhere I but from so I can tell who is selling my information and not buy from them anymore. The address matters less. I’m not avoiding the government and “hiding out” fo fuck’s sake, I’m just avoiding having my data leaked like this. Any number of fake names that like up on the same address also dilutes these data sets the shady dealers try and ship around. The more names at any single address reduce the confidence of its accuracy, and therefore price.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I grew up with phone books having names and addresses of everyone, so it feels less bad to have that released. The rest is fake though… birth date, etc.