Should the Government allow personal information to be obtainable?

Question

I’m not talking about the sex offenders list. I’m talking about civil court matters.

Should our Government allow companies to obtain our phone numbers, addresses and other personal information for solicitation purposes?

If we elect to not list our phone numbers addresses and what now in the phone book or on the internet why can people obtain that information from the court house look and send you junk mail and call your cell phone?

Answer 1

The only part I don't like about the Freedom of Information is the freedom for companies to share information about me! I don't like the fact that if I buy something from amazon.com it ends up in some database so that all my personal information (my name, my age, my profession, my salary, who I bank with, my contact details) are available to every other company in the world trying to sell me something!

I must get twenty calls a day from call centers in India and the Phillippines. I'm not a rude person, but have recently resorted to just hanging up on the calls when I hear the foreign voice and the buzz on the phone line...

Answer 2

Better question-

Should the government restrict private citizens from being able to obtain certain types of information and dictate what private citizens can and can not do with that information?

Public records are just that - public. What I buy is public information. If you don't want others to know, isolate yourself, get some land, start farming, and make all your own stuff.