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They'd be notified that someone looked it up unless you buy the entire full set of data for the entire county / country, as it contains a bunch of people all together then. Also, in the notification they receive, only which service was used will be mentioned and not exactly who did it.

So you can still lookup how much your co-workers earn without them knowing you asked for. But generally people are open with how much they earn, so it's really not an issue.

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Buy, or, you know, just go to the library. (I did this after I moved here to check that I wasn’t being drastically underpaid compared to my colleagues. Turns out that I was.)

If the US could do one thing for race relations, I feel this would be it.

I feel like you are being a bit too optimistic in terms of what it would lead to. It definitely would do something to race relations, but perhaps not what you wanted, especially in the short term.

Hint: it might end up leading to an uptick in antisemitism.

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