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Originally posted by saralk
In the UK you are allowed to match a name to a phone number, but not a number to a name, because it is an invasion of pivacy. People could say it is not an invasion of privacy because you the information is all there and publicly available, all you are doing is using it in a different way. But it is still considered invasion of privacy.
Exactly. It depends not on what information is available, but how it's made available, and how people are allowed to use and access it.
In this case, you might not know that I gave a reputation vote to Test_User, who is a personal friend of mine. If there was a list of every vote I've given, you would know. Without the list, you would have to actually view Test_User's profile, and you may have never heard of him.
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