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Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online (www.abc.net.au)
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What are the chances this will lead to online data privacy reform and corporate accountability for PII for all? or just...some?

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[โ€“] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt there's anywhere where the phone book wasn't digitized. In Germany, the requirement to publish your address + number was eventually dropped, though; maybe because the phone system was privatized.

[โ€“] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

I'm speaking of my experiences in the United States. Here, phone books tend to be separated into white pages and yellow pages. The white pages listed names, addresses and phone numbers of private lines, usually homes, and the yellow pages listed businesses. Taking out a listing in the yellow pages was the SEO of its day.

When the internet happened, the one thing that never really happened was a freely searchable database of the white pages. One thing the internet was never useful for as an upstanding citizen was looking up personal phone numbers.