go live in a cave, with no internet, telephone, mail or interaction with the 
outside world, and you'll be safe from all those crazy people slavvering to 
find you online...
The second you go online and create any sort of profile of any kind, or the 
second you have a publically listed address or telephone number, people can 
find you...they can also walk up to your house and knock on the door so what 
difference does it make?
Again, if you don't want your name, address or potentially phone number, 
online, don't go online, ever! and have your phone number unlisted and use a 
post office box instead of your home address for all bills and mail 
correspondance.
Now that you have indicated that you are on face book  and about 6 other 
social media sites, and given allot of personal info out over email, it's 
easy to find you...do you really imagine that a ham radio callsign is going 
to make your personal identity any harder to find than it already is? 
seriously? lol

73
Colin, V A6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: what identifying information is tied to a callsign?

Beth,
I don't think that a government license will make a lot of
difference.  in the ham databases it is your name, license class,
issue and expiration  dates and little else.  Nothing proprietary or,
honestly very intersting.  you've outted yourself more with your
emails tonight than ever would be available through a callsign
lookup.  So, chill out, get a callsign or not, and all will be what it is.
pat, K9JAUAt 08:45 PM 9/10/2015, you wrote:
>Okay, guys. I don't normally post on here. But I've got some serious
>decision making to do before I get my ham license. My boyfriend, who is
>already a ham, has a pretty common name. Okay, I was talking to him and
>another ham friend of mine, but I got worried about several things:
>1. If you Google for instance my boyfriend's callsign, you will find his
>profile right there on QRZ, Ham Shack, Arizona's ham radio database, and
>lots of other places. So that worries me because my name is a one and
>only, pretty unique.
>2. If you Google the same callsign plus your name, imagine what pops up
>after that. When I Googled my name alone, I managed to bring up some
>pretty weird stuff even I admit I wrote, plus my Facebook, LinkedIn,
>Twitter, Instagram, etc. I even found my Foursquare profile, and eerily,
>I found a 411 website that contained my dad's phone number and address,
>and if you Google the correct name, not Elizabeth, but Beth, you will
>definitely pop up my dad's address and phone number. I don't want this,
>so I'm trying to decide. If I google a callsign and name put together,
>you narrow your search, but it appears, however, that my boyfriend's
>name is too common, and I joked with him that he had a clone in
>Vancouver Washington State. lol
>So this is my dilemma: if I get a ham radio license now, unmarried, with
>the maiden name as is, my dad could easily pop up in Google search
>results, and someone, maybe another strange weird person, could contact
>my dad and ask why I even bothered. He has some mental competency issues
>with me he has not resolved, so that's a given. I hate my maiden name
>anyway. But I am leaning toward waiting for a license when my marriage
>certificate with my boyfriend is confirmed. When we sign and dot the I's
>and cross the T's on our I Do slip, so to speak, then I think I'd be
>better off with a ham license, smooth sailing. The reason why I am
>writing this list is to get advice and to see if I'm doing this all in
>the name of informed decision making. I know some of you who are male
>won't concur, but in this digital age, you can Google somebody's
>callsign and Lord knows what is connected with that. As for my
>boyfriend's clone in Vancouver, I'm not concerned, but I find it weird.
>I wish the boyfriend's callsign would show me his Facebook page though,
>after all I think that's where we're headed.
>Thank you all for your advice in advance.
>
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