Personal Profiles

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Public records repackaged into searchable personal profiles | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A fact can be legally public yet practically obscure; people-search systems change the exposure by combining scattered government records and other sources into one searchable profile.

Data access requests as a way to inspect an assembled profile | Dead Internet Theory

Dead Internet Theory: A data access request can reveal what a company has stored about a person, including volunteered facts, acquired attributes, inferred interests, and links to other identifiers—but the response still has limits.