Right? I'm actually interested in hearing the counter argument but unfortunately, it wasn't provided.
Or White Pages, the non-commercial version.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_directory
Who lives where, and their telephone number has always been public record.
It only started to become a real problem once people started automating telephone spam. Once again, an example of how Sales/Marketing/Advertising ruins every attempt at implementing a well formed public network.