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01/20/2011 02:14:02 AM · #1 |
This doesn't really apply to me as I live in South Africa but for all you folks in USA check this out:
//www.spokeo.com/
If you know someone's name you can pretty much find out anything about them. That got me wondering how safe it is seeing as you can get addresses, income etc...
I tried some of our USA members' names and I could find most of you. Some of you are off the radar though... |
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01/20/2011 02:23:05 AM · #2 |
Yeah I saw this site the other night. I think this is too much info to give out so freely. I know its all public record stuff, but damn. There's not much about me, actually there's more info about my house than really about me. But some of my friends have their phone numbers posted on there. One female friend found out about this site because of a guy she never liked way back in high school who had a crush on her called one night, saying he found her number on there. She went and got her number changed.
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01/20/2011 03:57:25 AM · #3 |
That's pretty funny actually.
About 25% of the stuff on there about me is correct. The rest is wrong. |
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01/20/2011 04:15:10 AM · #4 |
If anyone cares, you can be removed from their data base if you ask - it's pretty easy.
1. find you
2. copy the url at the top of your page
3. click "Privacy" at the bottom of the page and then fill in the empty boxes at the bottom of the page it opens - THE FREE STUFF
They will send you an email that you have to click a link in to confirm. Then when you search for yourself, you are no longer listed.
NOTE: If your spouse is listed, they have to ask to be removed (you can do it) or their information remains. And the photos they use are old, lol! Our yard looks better than that and we've sold the car long ago! :P |
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01/20/2011 08:54:26 AM · #5 |
It says my hobbies are "travel & cooking". I'll give them the travel part, but as far as the cooking goes, ask my wife if that's true.
Otherwise, everything else is pretty close to dead on.
I looked up my mom. They have her info right, but they show my dad living with her and that he is in his late 30s. That's not even close to right. He died in 1979 and would be turning 94 this year if he were still alive.
Message edited by author 2011-01-20 09:03:43. |
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01/20/2011 09:41:24 AM · #6 |
| they had the majority of my info wrong ... but I opted out anyway ... thanks for the info, passing along to friends/family |
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01/20/2011 09:52:21 AM · #7 |
| I guess I'm off the grid? I'm not in there. |
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01/20/2011 11:16:48 AM · #8 |
| I received 3 or 4 emails from friends about this so I checked it out on www.snopes.com - search on spokeo - you might want to check snopes out first. |
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01/20/2011 11:44:15 AM · #9 |
This is what's called an "aggregator" site. It's not the first one and it won't be the last. What they do is compile publicly-available information from different sources and display it to their customers. Opting out via their privacy policy does NOT remove the source information from the other sites from which it was harvested. So it's pretty pointless.
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01/20/2011 11:47:12 AM · #10 |
as someone pointed out, all of the info they have is public record.
My address and phone number are available from the phone company (or people.yahoo.com). All anyone needs to find a satellite view of my house is my address (maps.google.com). Who I am married to is public record. The size of my house, how long I've been there and what I paid for it are available from the state department of taxation & assessments. The current value is based upon the current assessment and the value of other homes recently sold in the area (www.zillow.com), also public record.
No need to freak out people. There is nothing there that anyone really interested in finding couldn't find otherwise. It's just all in one place to save them about three minutes of searching. |
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01/20/2011 02:18:45 PM · #11 |
| Exactly. This much information is available on other aggregators, such as pipl.com. All that extra stuff about family members is just a cheap trick, something like a horoscope - half the people will find a connection :). |
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01/20/2011 02:41:18 PM · #12 |
| Apparently I have a child that I don't know about! |
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01/20/2011 08:14:12 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is what's called an "aggregator" site... |
Yep! And in the computer industry, there's an old adage: "Garbage in, garbage out" or GIGO for short. And the information on this site is a perfect example. |
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01/20/2011 08:28:35 PM · #14 |
haha! My hobbies are reading and sports. Reading is correct. Sports is incredibly funny! :D
The household income is incredibly wrong or is that house price?
Message edited by author 2011-01-20 20:31:08.
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01/20/2011 08:34:49 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is what's called an "aggregator" site... |
Yep! And in the computer industry, there's an old adage: "Garbage in, garbage out" or GIGO for short. And the information on this site is a perfect example. |
That's alright. Mine has me married to my daughter. |
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01/21/2011 08:48:52 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by Kelli:
Originally posted by kirbic:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is what's called an "aggregator" site... |
Yep! And in the computer industry, there's an old adage: "Garbage in, garbage out" or GIGO for short. And the information on this site is a perfect example. |
That's alright. Mine has me married to my daughter. |
kinky.
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01/21/2011 08:51:37 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
haha! My hobbies are reading and sports. Reading is correct. Sports is incredibly funny! :D
The household income is incredibly wrong or is that house price? |
I'll trade you your 'sports' for my 'cooking' |
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01/21/2011 09:01:15 AM · #18 |
| My hobby is not existing! There is no record of me, and for my parents, it says they only have 1 child instead of 2. I wonder how I can best use this new found super power. |
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01/21/2011 09:06:58 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by giantmike:
My hobby is not existing! There is no record of me, and for my parents, it says they only have 1 child instead of 2. I wonder how I can best use this new found super power. |
Sell the one child? |
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