With this information, anyone can get a map to your house, complete with driving directions from just about anywhere. Though this is very handy for helping your friends find you, these maps can also be easily emailed to anyone, or posted to Web pages without your ever knowing about it. Information about your family is also freely available, some of it quite detailed. Well, with a couple of mouse clicks on a good genealogical database Mom's maiden name can be found by anyone. So can the social security numbers of your deceased relatives.
Public records are also increasingly available.
Details of the property you own, bankruptcy filings, liens placed on you by the tax man, probate records, and interactions you have had with judicial courts are all online. So are marriage and death certificates. And this is just the basic stuff. Let's dig a little deeper, and uncover the various tidbits that even savvy Joe Browser is cluelessly revealing about himself. You may not realize it, but your browser carries on a rather detailed conversation with every Web site you visit.