hey everyone, just wanted to give everyone a heads up about this site that came to my attention today. i know that there are a bunch of these websites out there, but i think this particular website has way too much personal information on it.
i typed my name in the search bar and this website gave such information as, the names of my entire family that live with me, approximate income, some websites that i post on, and the most disturbing, my address and even a picture of my house. i just wanted to put this info out there, so that others can remove the listing from the site. like i said before, i know that there are other websites that do the same thing, this information is public record and i think is covered by the freedom of information act but it just made me a little uncomfortable. im the paranoid type so all kinds of alarms went off in my head when i saw this, if ur like me, then u probably want to remove these listings. if anyone knows of other websites like this feel free to post up so that if some of us want to remove our info, then we can. on spokeo, if u want to remove ur listing, search for your name, find the correct one by the city that u live in, and click the privacy link on the bottom right hand side of the page. hope this helps.
You don’t have to join. Once you find your profile look at the lower right corner and you should see it in small print. Its not by itself, but says ’ About Blog Privacy Terms Help Contact.’
It had three family members for me. Most of the data was bogus, but it did have some correct info, plus the photo of my house. It only let me remove two out of the three, then cited policy about not removing all members.
Interesting. Most of the info was bogus including address and home owner status (I have not lived at that address for 3 years for example). The wife was listed twice, once as a 60 year old male and once as a 60 year old female. She is female of course but not near 60.
Good catch and thanks for letting us all know! Does anybody else know of any MORE websites like this? I would really like to get more control over my privacy.
I’ll take a different view: So far, the listings are inaccurate, and the data tainted with misinformation.
Why mess with it at all? If someone had some reason to sort through multiple sites with the same misinformation trying to “do something,” it will get pretty frustrating.
It’s like my credit rating- the numbers don’t reflect the fact I own my house, cars, etc. Nothing but utility and insurance payments. In one regard, it’s actually accurate - I don’t use credit, so the number reflects a lack of it. On the other hand, insurance companies and potential employers might take that number as some expression of financial instability - and infringe my rights.
what u say is true but for me personally, i am the paranoid type. law enforcement puts me in contact ith some very unsavory characters and i wouldnt put it past any of them that, if given the opportunity, would attempt to kill me or hurt my family. i know im not that important enough for someone to pay a bunch of money to have me killed, im just a patrol officer, but there are some people out there, that live all around us that are completely out of their minds and would like nothing better than to kill the man that put them in jail. see why i concerned myself with it now? why wouldnt i make it very difficult for one of these types to find where i live. for the love of god, a picture of my house was on the damned site. u dont think thats a bit too much?
I think it is more than a simple aggregator. It is an aggregator but is more than just a Google search on a person’s name. A lot of the stuff they claim you can look at if you pay did not come from Google.
“Available Results May Include” being the big catch. I can find CC#'S with socials (Mostly in China sold on forums) on google , has pretty much every page on the internet indexed. You look up me I’m not on the internet :P. If you find something about me it’s going to be misinformation posted on purpose
I consult for a company that has information that would make people never go online again, and it’s not connected to the government. They have over 200,000,000 fully detailed bios, even some have ex’s listed along with their favorite sports teams.
People post their medical conditions in forums, their sexuality age, state, and martial status on social media sites, tell people if their having an affair on sites like adultfriendfinder, their actual home addresses on their whois for their blog domain and just about every little bit of information in a public space.
Google reads your Gmail
So I wouldn’t worry about Spokeo, their one of the smaller services any how. I’d be more worried about the major 3, yahoo, msft, and google.
i had thought of that as well. what sux is that it is so easy to compile intelligence on anyone and their family now-adays. what else i found is that they already had my email address somehow. so im sure they will probably have a bunch of others as well. i just wanted to warn the other paranoid people that are similar to me. if possible i would like to keep this thread alive for a while so that other people can add the web addresses of other sites like it. there is a gang unit officer that works for my department that had some gang-bangers call him on his cell phone, threatening to kill him. i know that those turds used sites like this and other connections that they have to find him. i can personally say that these sites are dangerous if they are used in the wrong hands. just throwin that out there for what its worth. oh, and a side note, for people trying to remove more than 2 listings from spokeo, make a seperate email address and u can remove more than 2. i had to make another address to get all of my family off of that site. good luck everyone.
Do you know you can have your house taken off Google Street View if you’re in a sensitive position? Write and tell them, and they’ll black out about half a block around you.
