Technology really is beginning to scare me. This article just puts into words exactly what worries me about the amount of information there is held about each and every one of us in the world. I’m careful not to disclose my exact location on here - just in case - but a quick search in the right places (even though my phone number is not in UK phone books by choice) would probably yield the right results. If you wanted them of course.

That joky article explains how the blogger’s young daughter called a random number thinking she was called her grandparents, talked for a few seconds to a stranger on the end of the line, and hung up. Through that one phone number the nosey daddy was able to find out the bloke’s home address, the colour of his roof, and probably what colour his underwear was if he’d tried hard enough.

Some people revel in it - creating ‘geo-blogs’ and whathaveyou, where your exact location is compared to others, and bloggers in your area are linked to, as with them to you. But the problem is, some people don’t. Some people don’t at all. But most have no choice whether their phone number or address, or anything else for that matter, is publicly available on the Internet or not. What’s the point in keeping census records hidden for 100 years when there is this much information freely there to search through?