Make sure you read that Privacy Policy.

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Or should we say "Lack of" Privacy Policy?

Think your data isn't online? Think your privacy is secure? Take a minute to visit Spokeo and you'll change your mind.

The popular information-gathering website offers a multitude of options for finding information about anyone. It purports to know your income, religion, spouse's name, credit status and the number of people in your household. It even offers a satellite shot of your house, complete with an estimated value.

Spokeo’s not alone in the information-mining business -- competitor Intelius, for instance, offers similar services -- and for as little as $2.95 a month for a year’s membership, you can run a detailed background check that pulls information from local, state and federal government databases and hundreds of social-networking sites.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/19/spokeo-cyber-security-warn-threat-privacy/#ixzz1CULVe8ew

My friend showed me the website and helped me get my information blocked. Intelius isn't so easy, though; they require you to fax them proof it's you, and every time your info changes it'll come back onto the website and you have to reprove it's you asking for it to be taken off again.

Why?

[R]evealing some personal information is okay because it means there is a way to link an online persona with an actual individual. Angry posters at Websites can be traceable and not engage in anonymous name-calling, in other words.

Comments

[eajou.livejournal.com]

None of the information that I've looked up regarding my family, friends or myself is up to do. For example, I've moved out of my parents house a year ago to live full time by my school (and it was a permanent change in address) yet I am still listed as living with them. My brother isn't listed at all (he is 22) and my friend, who is an army wife and living on base, is also still listed as living at her old home where she moved from two years ago. My cousin, who still lives at home, is said to be living at an apartment (HAHAHAHA, that chauvinistic person will never leave as long as Mommy does everything for him - despite the fact that he is in his 30s) that values a certain amount and that he makes a certain amount, which I know is untrue.

I'll check it out more, I'm tempted to pay just to see what they have about me exactly.

[eajou.livejournal.com]

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Excuse the grammar - just woke up.