We were ok with the "white pages" but are now terrified of the same information being leaked to the internet. What changed?
In my city, anyway, about 2/3rd of people did not allow their address to be printed.
You hit the key point: information distribution has costs. It always has. And that cost always kept bad actors somewhat in check. Making information reproducible only in a local context was safe-ish.
Until the internet of course. Now it's logged on every physical drive that happened to cache your information.
Please update the post.
