[The Fifth Horseman]

Ever here of a phone book with name, birthdate, and ext location yu can simple go to a phone book and find thier address.

Yeah, sure. My name is John Reese. Which Sara Connor are you?

With just that much info you can get a credit card in someone's elses name. that is teh info needed to find someones sociaalsecurity number.

Perhaps, perhaps not.
Are you trying to accuse the staff of this site of attempting identity theft on anyone?

And, the main point it isn't nescary for them to collect this information.

It's not, but this is how the boss set up the registration process. Since the Drupal administrator controls are a chaotic mess, none of us have the slightest idea where the registration settings are dug up in the first place if we wanted to change them (like when there was talk of changing the location box to a text input).

Requiring the user to input name, age and location serves as a major deterrent for bot registration. We had perhaps three bots get in since the site upgrade - before that, it was more like a minimum of three bots a week.

Finally, you had to enter this information when registering... so if you're so freaking paranoid, why the hell did you register here (or anywhere else, for that matter) to begin with?

peace01, make a list, on that list every one who has that info.
Put on that list every time you ever provided that info, school, biblio, work, whatevers and whatnots, hotels, any time you gladly provided that info to complete strangers.
Don't forget to add the times your parents had to give detailed info about you when you were a small child.

QFT.
Truth is, anyone can get full detailed information on your person if they put half their mind to it. There are places where you can't avoid providing it to people you don't know jack shit about - ever bought anything on eBay, for example?