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The issue is that this is easily enough information to easily perform social engineering attacks against a bank or Facebook or Google.
You could do that anyway. It would be much effective to exploit someone's lost cellphone.
If you lost your wallet at Outside Lands, your information is now public
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also want to add that your blog post exposes more information than OutsideLOAF does, Bryan Kennedy, Co-Founder of San Francisco-based Sincerely.
Yes, my personal blog does expose quite a lot about me. In a way that's the intention of one's blog. However, I don't think copying my personal information here is appropriate.
Why not? I't s already copied in numerous commercial databases by now. You did publish it, after all.
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You're right, it is a bit silly and it doesn't have to be made into a big deal. But it's also information they had no right to disclose, and furthermore is completely unnecessary. Why did they even need to put the person's name in the list? The owner certainly could write in with their name, and that could be used to identify the card easily.
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#24svbtle blog posts:
"Here's a random thought I had the other day but didn't really think through too thoroughly"
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#25Update: Outside Lands has taken the site down and will be fixing the issues. Apparently the information was added to the public site unintentionally.
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#26It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a high-traffic web site.
Outside Lands actually tweeted out the link earlier, so it certainly wasn't a private site.
But the point is, if you were worried about the information going public, why not exercise some of that "great responsibility" and not push further traffic to it until the problem is fixed?
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#27"Your information is now public" ... as in, your full name and the fact that you went to Outside Lands and lost something? I don't see what the big deal here is. Coachella had a very similar practice when it came to trying to reunite owners w/ their IDs and credit cards. They are not posting credit card numbers, they are not posting cities... there is nothing identifying at all that would pose any danger to these peo…
But do you know for sure that those people have public profiles? You are making quite an assumption by implying that this data is public.
I believe that exposing people's personal information without their knowledge or consent, however trivial or helpful as a means to an end, isn't the right thing to do.
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#28It's interesting that they keep these considering it's a "well known fact" that you can drop a Driver's License in the mail and it will be returned to the owner at the address labeled (at no expense to the person putting it in the mail).
[1] http://lifehacker.com/return-a-lost-drivers-license-by-dropp...
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#29> For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas. ...and do what, exactly?
It is not anyone's business to know what these people do with their time, unless they choose to willingly share. Yes the chance for actual harm is low (the only thing that immediately came to mind is something along the lines of "college student who promised their parents they were studying for the CPA that weekend but now helicopter mom found out the truth", etc). But it is the principle of the matter. We still have some principles, don't we?
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You're right, it is a bit silly and it doesn't have to be made into a big deal. But it's also information they had no right to disclose, and furthermore is completely unnecessary. Why did they even need to put the person's name in the list? The owner certainly could write in with their name, and that could be used to identify the card easily.
If they weren't going to put names on the list, what would they put beyond a bunch of stats, such as "we found 455 California drivers licenses this year"?
Also, if you leave your data in a public place (such as Golden Gate Park), I don't think anyone should really expect privacy. Imagine if there was no lost and found service and all of the wallets were just left in the mud after Outside Lands (this is the control case). The posting of just some of the info in the wallet online preserves privacy compared to just leaving the wallet laying on the ground.
People who lose their wallets are afraid of their credit card info and cash getting stolen and don't want to have go through the process to get new documents such as a drivers license. This solution avoids all of those problems and makes it easy for people to claim their stuff. I'd much rather this site exist than not exist.