when full disclosure can hurt you?
By winterose
@winterose (39887)
Canada
March 13, 2008 12:31am CST
everyone wants to win the lottery, at least those people who play it.
But here in Quebec they publish the winners name and addresses,
Many people are up in arms over this as it is just too dangerous,
there have been robberies, etc and what about holding your family for ransom,
these things really do happen, so there is a movement to suppress this information,
what do you think,
does a big lottery organization still have the right to publish this personal information?
is there another way they can account for their payouts without giving so much information?
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7 responses
@joyceshookery (2057)
• United States
13 Mar 08
Oh no! Are they nuts? Of course unscrupulous people are going to track down the lottery winners when their identity and whereabouts is published!
I think it's very inappropriate for the lottery organization to make a winner's address public information and hope they quit doing so immediately.
They can account for their winner payouts within the organization's records, but certainly not make it available to the public.
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@ellie333 (21016)
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13 Mar 08
Here in the UK you have a right to be kept a secret winner which I believe is right, some people are so excited and don't mind all the publicity but like you say it can lead to criminal activites being targeted against you because of your winnings and the begging letters. I would genuinely help people but people and charities of my choice. Even on sites online when you win they just put name an area not full address details and then a lot of the time with permission. When I won £75 on a quiz last year they put my name on their winners list but no area and then invited me to comment if I would like to but they didn't automatically publish. No they shouldn't have the right to publish. Ellie :D
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@whyaskq (7523)
• Singapore
14 Mar 08
I think I can understand why they need to publish the information. Personally, I feel it is more to convince the public that there are real winners. Definitely I am sure they need not publish full name and address details. Part of it should suffice. This is to protect the winners from unexpected harm.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
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13 Mar 08
Thats really bad, I would be scared of winning it for fear of that happening to me, so I would not play it. Surely they do not have the right to publish information like that its terrible.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Mar 08
Gee I had not thought about that but here in the US Publishers Clearing House also publishes the winners names and addresses plus airs that on television. I can see that it could be dangerous to the winner if someone is of a criminal mind. I do not know just how but I can imagine there must be some way they could account for their payoffs and still keep the winner's information confidential.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
14 Mar 08
I think in the United States, you have to let them announce your name and where the ticket was bought, but I don't think they publish your address or any other personal information. I think that's crazy! It's hard enough having your friends and relatives know about it and trying to get money out of you, but complete strangers! Who thought up this idea?
I know that in my city, if you start a business, even a small, home-based business, they publish your name, address, and phone number to anyone who wants to see it. I thought that was bad until I heard what you said about this.
