Roy Smith wrote:
Ron Natalie wrote:
The public has no business knowing what ratings I have

I'm not sure I agree with you. Let's say I want to hire you as a pilot.
Should I not have the right to verify your credentials?

Then if they feel that is necessary, they should do so within the
law. They can't just violate the law because the feel that they
have a good reason to do otherwise.

In fact, there exist ways for commercial certificate holders to
check up on the status of employees through the FAA without using
the public database. Further, I wouldn't ever hire anybody
without actually seeing the paper anyhow.