Is it just me that has a constant dribble of other people's private data coming to me from government agencies?

This year, I've had the UK variously send me someone else's court summons, someone else's tax documentation (not address error - just inadvertently included as attatchments on emails to me).

I've had portugal disclose property taxation information on any subject to me, through a simple enumeration hole.

And last week I had brazil's ministry of agriculture send me details on other peoples' livestock shipments.

Our information environment is unbelievably porous. There would be no secrets from an unshackled AI.

Not specifically as you say, but I have had:

- a UK police force send me a speeding prosecution notice for a car I'd sold 6 months prior to the offence.

- a UK energy company send me to a debt collection agency for unpaid bills they had continued to send to a non-existent address even after telling me they had cleared what was owed and corrected their records of the address.

- a German government official showing up at my door to ask if I was running a specific named business (that I'd never heard of) at the house, which I'd only just taken ownership of from the builder

Someone I used to know in the UK kept getting emails for other people with the same name, including lawyer confidential communications for a namesake who was involved in one of the big banking scandals.

> Our information environment is unbelievably porous. There would be no secrets from an unshackled AI.

Absolutely. My biggest defences against that include the luck of someone else more famous with my own name.

> I've had portugal disclose property taxation information on any subject to me, through a simple enumeration hole.

I suspect very few people have had this experience, yes.

As opposed to Big Tech sharing your data ?