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Privacy
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
—- PUBLILIUS SYRUS (100 BCE)
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE I LIVE? If you visit the WhitePages.com Web site and
type my phone number into the Reverse Phone field, it returns a page giving my name
and address. Click on the address and you'll soon see a map of the neighborhood around
my house.
Spend a few seconds more, and you can learn a lot about my standard of living.
Go to Zillow.com and enter the address that you just learned from whitepages.com.
Zillow dutifully returns the estimated value of my house, based on public records that
document its size, its assessed value, and information about recent sales of other homes
in my neighborhood. Click on the Street View tab and you'll see a photo of my house
taken from Google's camera-equipped car as it passed down my street.
If you become a friend of one of my friends on Facebook, you can get even more
glimpses into my personal life by viewing photos of me that other people have posted
and tagged. You can see me lounging by a swimming pool at a family reunion, juggling
croquet balls, unwrapping a Christmas present, and walking my daughter Shauna down
the aisle on her wedding day.
