Protect your privacy

Knucklehead
Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
edited May 2010 in The Clubhouse
THIS IS NO BS>, Spokeo.com is a new online phone book w/personal information: pictures you've posted on FB or web,your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. Remove your listing by first searching for yourself on their site to find the URL of your page and copy it, then... going to the Privacy button on the bottom of THEIR page to remove yourself, paste the link there.THIS IS NOT A JOKE!

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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2010
    They're collecting public information. If you don't want them to do so, how about don't make that information public in the first place?

    EDIT : Snopes has an [url=]article about them[/url], and notes :
    NOTE: By running some trials with Spokeo, we've found that:

    * The information returned to paying customers through Spokeo searches is not very detailed and is often inaccurate.

    * Our repeated trials with requesting the blocking of a particular record through Spokeo's privacy page have found the procedure to be highly questionable: no attempt is made to verify that the person requesting the blocking of a record is the person identified by that record, our efforts have never resulted in a successfully blocked record, and Spokeo's customer service group has not responded to any inquiries. All of this has led some to speculate that one of Spokeo's core businesses is actually the collecting of e-mail addresses.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2010
    Just thought i would share....do it or dont do it....I could care less.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited May 2010
    I might as well assassinate all of you CP guys who have dealt with me in order to protect my privacy :D
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited May 2010
    Knucklehead wrote: »
    Just thought i would share....do it or dont do it....I could care less.

    Not a critique, it's a good thing to share, just sharing an opinion.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited May 2010
    Some of the information is surprising, I'm just glad they had my home value of $1,000,000+ correct. :D
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited May 2010
    If I had to put together the list of the top 50 offenders of consumer privacy, Spokeo wouldn't even make the list. They just scrape together what's available from other sources.
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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,773
    edited May 2010
    Interesting, it's the first site I've ever found to return any information at all using my name. I really don't put any information on the web, especially pictures and details of my family. They have my town and street name correct, but EVERYTHING else is dead wrong. Of course the Michigan SOS dept is well known for selling driver's licence information, so there are probably thousands who have my address, no big deal.

    Some of it just didn't make sense, for instance:

    Home value: $2M+ (I wish)
    Neighborhood: Below average

    Odd that a below average neighborhood would have $2M+ homes in it. Other than those, it has my age, length of residency, zodiac sign, marital status, education, etc. all wrong. I'm not real concerned.

    Like the snopes article says, asking them to pull it down will probably just make them think they have the correct info, and give them your email address as well. Don't bother.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited May 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Not a critique, it's a good thing to share, just sharing an opinion.

    Ita all good...:) I just thought it was odd that they in fact had a lot of info correct about me, I dont really share public info.
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  • PerfectCreature
    PerfectCreature Posts: 1,456
    edited May 2010
    Searched me up, didn't even make the list ha.
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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited May 2010
    Same here, I'm first in Google, but they don't even have my name in their database... The site seems kinda funky anyways...
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited May 2010
    Not too much info showed. Mainly some ads I ran for old sales. Couple pics that you can easily find on my photobucket. Not much else.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited May 2010
    Did for both my wife and me. Although most of the info was inaccurate it was there and did have some picture from facebook. I googled my name and only my son's info shows up however my mom, dad, sister, & brothers showed up. Odd?

    EDIT; when I put my name and city it comes up with threads from this forum.
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  • j allen
    j allen Posts: 363
    edited May 2010
    I just searched myself, and came up with what would have been correct info several years ago.

    It puts my fiancee as living with her stepmother, who never speaks to her, except to threaten her life....

    Yay for checking the accuracy of the information you make available!
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  • m1aman
    m1aman Posts: 143
    edited May 2010
    Looked up myself and I wasn't even there. Guess I don't rate. :)
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited May 2010
    Man, there is one fugly pic supposedly of me on there. Some redneck dude with a beard. At least there was no pics of a trailer park. :)
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited May 2010
    I looked at mine, according to them I'm a 40+ year old beaner with a house worth well over 1 million and so much more that was not even close to being accurate. HAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited May 2010
    Theres like half naked pictures of my wife
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