"Your information is now public" ... as in, your full name and the fact that you went to Outside Lands and lost something? I don't see what the big deal here is. Coachella had a very similar practice when it came to trying to reunite owners w/ their IDs and credit cards. They are not posting credit card numbers, they are not posting cities... there is nothing identifying at all that would pose any danger to these people in real life that cannot be found on a public LinkedIn or Facebook profile.
It's interesting that they keep these considering it's a "well known fact" that you can drop a Driver's License in the mail and it will be returned to the owner at the address labeled (at no expense to the person putting it in the mail).<p>[1] <a href="http://lifehacker.com/return-a-lost-drivers-license-by-dropping-it-in-any-ma-510418965" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/return-a-lost-drivers-license-by-dropp...</a>
It would be a cool weekend project to scrape this data and do a search for these people's public profiles that have also mentioned the word "lost" or "OutsideLands" and send them a message
> For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas.<p>...and do what, exactly?
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"For instance, using name matching alone, you can clearly identify the full name of a student at University of Central Oklahoma, what state she’s from, where she went to undergrad, and where she shops for gas."<p>You mean without using Facebook and/or LinkedIn?
It was nice of you to pixellate the image, but you might want to remove the link, too. "Here's a web site with a bunch of people's private information on it" isn't the kind of thing you generally want to post to a high-traffic web site.
Its a small enough data set to know exactly how much damage was caused by this disclosure. How many wallets were returned to scammers? Anybody? Zero? I'm thinking zero.<p>In that case this was a non-issue.