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I've mentioned this in a few places but it seems to be ignored:

The account that posts the addresses is assosciated with some company. If that company isn't just 'Generic Consulting Company' then there is some context derived from the account name.

ie: This account is owned by 'XXX Toys', and they're asking me to clean up this address information. I guess someone at this address ordered some adult toys.

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> If that company isn't just 'Generic Consulting Company'

But it is. I am just a small consulting company here, working for various clients and turkers have no idea who I work for, especially because most of the time even that is under NDA. (And as I noted above, this was a B2B sort of thing, so people got themselves into a tizzy over the addresses of businesses all around the world.)

You are making a ton of assumptions with absolutely zero evidence and using that as the basis of an argument for attacking the company. Fortunately he replied stating that it is a small consulting company, which is exactly what you'd expect, thus making your entire argument moot.

I'm not making any assumptions about anything, and I'm not attacking any company. I'm addressing the point that jamra made above, which is a general commenting stating that publishing a list of addresses is harmless because addresses are public data.

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