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Old 07-20-12, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by eja_ bottecchia
Now, do you still really think that it is such a great idea to have this information avaialble to anyone with $250.00 to pay to a PI?
Just for the record, I'm not saying that this information should be available to "anyone with $250.00 to pay to a PI", but that said ...

Just because some information was used to commit a murder 23 years ago does not automatically mean that said information should not be made available. (I'm also not saying that there aren't other incidents that didn't involve celebrities.)

For example, I'll bet a lot more murders have been committed using information from the phone book. Street numbers can be used for people to find their victims. Tax rolls have been used. Sex offender registries. Google searches, etc.

(And some of these things have been scrutinized as being too open. For example, in Texas they now remove certain people from the property tax rolls -- as if that would keep people from knowing where GWB's place is, for example.)
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