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https://www.securityweek.com/georgia-su ... nformation

"......the Supreme Court of the state of Georgia has ruled (May 20, 2019) that the state government does not have an inherent obligation to protect citizens' personal information that it stores..."

Nice precedent

For U.S. citizens, there's also a deeper thing going on here: guess which U.S. State good ole' Equifax is headquartered/ domiciled in?

Yup, same one....

Not sure how this will apply to private companies.
This was about the state government.

Any information that is in public records is open for anyone to see.
Whatever is considered public records in each state.

Examples

So what type of information falls within the purview of public records? Typical public records include, but are not limited to:

Court records
Birth records
Death records
Marriage records
Licensing records
Statistical data
Business records, such as articles of incorporation
Meeting minutes
Voting records
Correspondence
Budgets
Government financial records
Manuals
Statutes and regulations and interpretations regarding the same
Directives, orders, and interpretations regarding the same
Studies and reports
Transcripts of hearings and meetings
Administrative policies and procedures
Government contracts and leases
Historical records
Research records

The big problem is, this information is NOW easily accessed over the internet.
No longer have to go to a county office building to get the information.

The internet and computer databases, are really making a case for identity chips, someplace on your body.

Can we have our ID chip in an Open Quantum Future Form please?

The BugDogs already have my finger and thumb prints (thanks To Appeal ... eh Apple)

Face recognition of all passing citizens is being used 'legally' by the British State Police. Gonna just have to wear the unfashionable Hijab and Fashion Veil ...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... gy-failure
I iz just a walking ID card awaiting profiled advertising ...

Oh PI = Private Information ... I thought they were after a slice of my Raspberry Pi ...

Normal threading, tagging and monitoring is now resumed . . .

No it is not.
That was an experiment from over a year ago and was a failure.
While cameras may well be used to track people, relying on facial recognition technology in legal cases is not. There has to be an alternate method of proof.

If you look at the QUALITY of the pictures produced by many of the cameras, it would take someone who knows the person VERY well to identify them with 100% certainty.

I'll side with bigpup on this one.

Any State Governement is public, so the list of documents about me or any citizen of the
State is public. I notice income tax reports are not in the list? Or I need new glasses?

I'll start worrying when the State, any State, Government has become private or secret.

Yes there are underhand scheming and spying, but the public handles on that have not
yet disappeared.