Several friends on facebook alerted me to the site spokeo.com. It's essentially a phonebook that includes a lot of personal data compiled from around the internet. I'm not sure if I should be concerned about privacy or not - seems like that ship has sailed.
I reviewed my profile. True that I'm married, in my early 40s and have an unknown occupation. False that I'm a Capricorn. Capricorn? Crappy website can't get my astrological sign right and I'm supposed to worry about someone using this data to...what? Steal my identity? My identity as a Capricorn? (Is it really necessary to capitalize zodiac signs?) I love that I live in a home that is both worth $1M+ and located in a "below average" neighborhood. One of those two pieces of data is wrong, but I'm not saying which one.
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2 days ago
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I'm not in there...but I was surprised to see there are 9 people with my name across the country.
And your neighborhood rocks.
I am horrified by this site. First of all, it has me in the $1M+ home price (is ANYONE in that category in North East?), below-average neighborhood (yeah, OK, truth hurts) categories as well. Most offensively, it says I've completed "some college." Suck on my master's degree, spokeo.com, and I friggin' TEACH graduate courses, too! (My ego is not going to recover from this one.) And don't even get me started on it saying my home has no heat or central air (um, I wouldn't live here with no central air, morons) and that my interests include the OUTDOORS. Horrifying. Simply horrifying.
How'd you like the googleearth photo of your house? Mine included 100% false info, except for the house I DID live in some years ago, in a different "life". Unlisted phone #'s, peeps. OH! And there's a photo of Not Me, standing next to a horse I've never seen. I would never get that close to a horse. I'm afraid of horses. And chickens. And squirrels. Basically all wildlife and farm animals.
Since this is being typed into a google text box, I hope this matter will be cleared up in the ID database soon.
This is very creepy. There were quite a few "Not Me"s on that site. I do like Google Earth though.
Hmmmm... A lot of misinformation on that site, which begs the question of why anyone would actually want to buy a membership.
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