Well, anyone can look up a person's census address, which isn't necessarily where you live, but it's probably an address you have control over, or someone else lives there who you trust.
When you interact with government or banks or anyone that needs to send you important documents, those are mailed to your census address, and nowhere else. It makes it much harder to do identity theft. (Basically, the whole transparent system makes it a lot easier to prevent identity theft)
I don't see how spammy services would benefit from this, for what it's worth I received a crapton more directly addressed spam when I lived in SF than when I lived in Stockholm.
Stalkers are handled by the system, as other commenters have pointed out, you can get a protected address, which means that very few can look up your census address.
Debt collectors... Explain to me in what way it is bad that someone whom you owe money can find you? Hiding to avoid paying debt you actually owe is illegal.
When you interact with government or banks or anyone that needs to send you important documents, those are mailed to your census address, and nowhere else. It makes it much harder to do identity theft. (Basically, the whole transparent system makes it a lot easier to prevent identity theft)
I don't see how spammy services would benefit from this, for what it's worth I received a crapton more directly addressed spam when I lived in SF than when I lived in Stockholm.
Stalkers are handled by the system, as other commenters have pointed out, you can get a protected address, which means that very few can look up your census address.
Debt collectors... Explain to me in what way it is bad that someone whom you owe money can find you? Hiding to avoid paying debt you actually owe is illegal.