Have you ever been sodomized with a chain saw? (Demographic profiling is getting out of hand)

I'm all for shooting the breeze about who we are and where we come from on this site.  I'm not about to claim that the profiling efforts made thus far amounts to trolling behavior, but I must say that when we start encouraging our members to disclose their respective arrest and prison records to the wide world, I have to put my voice to the word "enough".

Granted, nobody is forcing anyone to respond to these demo requests. I've occasionally responded to age and geographic poll data requests, but come on. Why do we really need to know whether any of us has been in the slammer, unless one of us affirmatively brings it up as being relevant to a particular diary or comment?  Why do we need to go into the salacious detail of someone's service to the state?  Why do we need to make it that much easier for google harvesting trolls to dig up dirt on people who may or may not be wise to just how open information on this site can be?

I do not subscribe to the view that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about", and my viewpoint is one I believe that is shared by most people viewing or posting on this site.  Indeed, we have made it our mission to, among other things, bring to light this administration's idiotic desecration of our constitutional rights through its unlawful surveillance on U.S. citizens.  This is not about whether someone has committed a crime.  This is about basic privacy and avoiding incidents where we encourage such a level of self-disclosure that literally nothing is private anymore. In that light, I must ask again: Why do we encourage dailykos readers to lightly disclose their prior run-ins with the police?

In summary, I feel this on-going identification process, however well intended, is getting out of hand.