Interesting article in the December 2006 issue of Law Technology News titled "Forget Privacy: Public records contain astonding amounts of personal information, easily discovered." Authors: Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch.
The article discusses both the ease of finding public records and the burgeoning backlash of people not wanting their information to be available to every spammer, stalker, or identity thief. It also gives ideas of alternative sources to find information on people, such as blogs, podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, social networking sites, etc.
Privacy laws are also briefly discussed, such as the Driver's License Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (18 USC 2721 et. seq) and the Supreme Court case six years later that finally told states to stop selling the driver's license information. (Reno v. Condon, 58 US 141(2000)).
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