Posted on 04/30/2010 2:16:22 PM PDT by DBCJR
You may want to check out http://www.spokeo.com to see what personal information is there. Spokeo.com is a new online phone book w/personal information: everything from pics you've posted on FB or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. You can remove yourself by first searching for yourself on their site to find the URL of your page and going... to the Privacy button on the bottom of their page to remove yourself which takes you to http://www.spokeo.com/privacy. Pass this onto those you care about.
I am on there, but everything they say about me is either a decade old or was never true in the first place. (apparently, I’m a Pisces, and I have grandchildren already - who knew!). Some of the interests it lists for me are indeed true, but then there’s about 40 of them, so no shock that they make a few correct guesses.
Thankfully I don't use facebook, twitter or any of those other "social networking" and post embarassing information about myself, but geez, what they had on me was seriously creepy. Removed myself and Mrs. USC, and am sending information onto everyone I know to do the same.
Where do these websites think they get the right to do this kind of stuff to us?
Still relevant bump.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/19/spokeo-cyber-security-warn-threat-privacy/
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