"What are you hiding?" No, try "What are they trying to get away with?"

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The suggestion that customer name and address information is not sensitive information because it is the sort of info listed in a phone book misses the point. The sensitivity of the information depends on the context. Your name on a list of residents in a city is not particularly revealing, but your name on a list of people who are being treated for depression surely is. If police are looking for a customer's name and address, it's not because they're carrying out a census. It's because they think they have something nasty to connect that person to. And if they are looking for it without a warrant, it's because they don't have enough evidence to satisfy a judge or a justice of the peace. Or because they think constitutional rights to privacy are an inconvenience.
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I first heard of this again through slashdot recently ... glad some Canadians are picking up on this!