Major Privacy concerns with Spokeo.com
Posted on | April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
ATTENTION EVERYONE! There’s a site called http://www.Spokeo.com that’s a new online phone book w/personal information:
Everything from pictures you’ve posted on Facebook 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 – http://www.spokeo.com/privacy.
I tried to delete me but I got some bull crap response of:
In order to prevent abuse, we must limit the frequency of privacy requests. Please try again tomorrow. Government officials please use your @.gov email address for priority processing.
Just keep trying.
I found me and 3 different listing for Matt. It then linked to family his family members.
I searched for my parents and found records for them too. Luckily nothing about my kids.
I know many of you think, “I am all over the web, post anything and use every social media network out there” Not true. I value my privacy and only share what I want to share, not my home address and value!
Please take a moment to search the site and see for yourself, then share this with others.
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April 30th, 2010 @ 3:08 pm
I found 2 separate listings for myself. One of them wasn’t even correct (it was actually my parents’ info). I was able to remove the first one just fine, but when I tried for the 2nd one, I got the same message you got. I’ll try again tomorrow. I’m also forwarding this to my parents so they can remove themselves.
May 4th, 2010 @ 7:17 pm
Gosh, that’s creepy… I deleted myself with no problem though… sometimes its convienient, I hate to admit to find my friends phone number or something
May 5th, 2010 @ 9:41 am
I found your page through http://www.algtphotoproject.com. Thanks for the heads up. I posted it on Facebook to get the word out. The info they had on me was mostly out of date, but it’s scary how detailed some of it is!