Amazing. I wonder what the benefit is of having information such as you home address public.
In one country giving someone a pair of shoes is seen as a nice present, in another it is considered a grave insult.
What you grow up with as a kid can have a big influence on what you consider acceptable.
In my personal view as long as the rules apply the same to all then that's the largest problem solved.
EDIT: fixed typo
I am not joking when I worked for a Telco they used this scenario to empathize whey you should not do favours for friends and lookup peoples address.
1. It makes some forms of investigative journalism easier. For example, there has been a lot of discussion about the potential problems of having most of the influential journalists in Sweden living within a very small "hipster" area in Stockholm.
2. E-commerce companies may decide to only ship to the adress where you are officially registered, making it harder to commit e-commerce fraud.
I don't know if they've done this yet but a while ago there were articles about them working on a way to disallow changing your address via the mail form: