27 Apr
2012
27 Apr
'12
5:21 a.m.
Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
The first thing that occurs to me is that if address verification was enabled, perhaps it could be used to find out where people live or such, and so our super duper privacy laws block its use -- similar to how our whois database is pretty bare. (This is pure speculation.)
I had the same speculation, but I then thought that even if this were the case, one should be able to "opt in". The vendor gets the billing and shipping address anyway.