“Maybe social security numbers and credit card numbers of newspaper employees should be published on websites in the name of the greater public good.”
Could you imagine the uproar if a well-intentioned newspaper published the locations and/or names of all AIDS- and HIV-infected residents? Those people are much more dangerous that gun-totin’ citizens. A citizen with a gun interacting with others can be a wonderful, life-saving thing. A citizen armed with AIDS is another story. I think it would be in the public’s best interested if we knew were all of these infected people lived.
There is a federal law that makes it unlawful for a Real Estate agent to share with a potential buyer that an AIDS patient lived in the home. Even if you know, you cannot disclose which is contrary to all other real estate disclosure laws. Another "special" law for the reprobates.
AIDS/HIV is sacrosanct thanks to the gay lobby. If you provide foster care to an HIV positive child they are not even allowed to tell you the child’s status.