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A Matter of Privacy.

 
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Elfen_Furry
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:27 am    Post subject: A Matter of Privacy. Reply with quote

I only write this as a warning for all who question how private their web identities and online connections can be. A friend of mine alerted me to this company, having most of her personal information: Name, address, phone number, email address, personal photos that she never published, you name it. I put my email address and whoa! Copies of my email. Copies forum posts on here and other forums I go to. You name it, it was there. On top of all that- if I wanted to see the whole thing about me, that I would have to pay them to see it! I demanded that they remove my email information and everything tied to it from their servers.

The site in question is: http://www.spokeo.com

Search for your own email and see what comes up. Copy the url for the information.

At the bottom of the page, click on the 'Privacy' link. you will need to fill out that form, paste the url with the information you want deleted and decypher the catpcha. Answer the email you will receive, and your info should be deleted immediately. (took 5 minutes for mine to get done.)

I will be checking the site often to see if my info has returned.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing on me at all.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I checked and didn't find anything about me, but I'll keep a check on them...
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine's almost all wrong-- I think I'll leave it that way. =;)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I found my name the rest is wrong ^^
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine isn't very accurate either.

It should be noted that spokeo accumulates data that is freely available from other sources on the net, if you know where to find it. You might be able to get spokeo to delete your information, but that won't have any effect on the other sites they got it from. Entities who use that information on a large scale (such as advertisers) know how to get what they need from these other sources without paying someone like spokeo for it.

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got a whole-lotta nothing on me, none of my e-mails even resolve to my name, and my name does not resolve to my proper address. One of my e-mails even proports an address in CA! So yea, leaving it alone...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has the address I lived at 10 years ago Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^^ Same here. And it's wrong by the apartment.

Thanks for the shout, though. I am glad to know that there is little to no personally-identifiable info on me.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though one thing to check every so often as well, is to google for your name. Google for your phone-number, etc... I was surprised to find old school records on me, and such... Thankfully nothing current, but still...
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pretty much nothing on me.
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