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04-22-2019, 02:55 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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Originally Posted by Spock
My first guess is that the restaurants credit card processor provides the phone number lookup as part of their processing fees.
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I have also noticed that a few places (Home Depot and Lowe's for sure) will email a receipt to me...and they get it from the CC company.
It won't be too much longer before all these different bits of information will all be linked to YOU...and this probably includes all your usernames that are used on forums. Seems unlikely today, but I bet it's going to happen.
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04-22-2019, 03:12 PM
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#62
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 2,796
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Originally Posted by ExFlyBoy5
I have also noticed that a few places (Home Depot and Lowe's for sure) will email a receipt to me...and they get it from the CC company.
It won't be too much longer before all these different bits of information will all be linked to YOU...and this probably includes all your usernames that are used on forums. Seems unlikely today, but I bet it's going to happen.
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IIRC, there was something like this back in the old AOL days. You could see a tree diagram of all the newsgroups someone went to, and the usernames (I think) also, and the dates and times. I think it was done by tracking your IP address. This tree diagram was accessible by anyone on AOL. Maybe they changed that, don't know.
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04-22-2019, 03:21 PM
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#63
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gone traveling
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 3,508
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Originally Posted by Midpack
Well obviously, that’s doesn’t mean it’s so easy anyone can...
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Not anyone. Just anyone that wants to...
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04-22-2019, 04:12 PM
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#64
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
Posts: 9,722
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Originally Posted by Midpack
I can’t outsmart data mining pros but I try to stay up to speed on protecting our personal info, this WAS something new. First time anyone anywhere has gotten my name and email address instantly with nothing but my phone number while talking on the phone (which doesn’t have our address BTW). I wasn’t online, assume being on the phone was “safer.”
I check periodically and you still can’t get my other personal info using search or reverse lookup unless you register and/or pay, I’d be surprised if most merchants/people would.
We’ve never been to the restaurant in question and it’s more than 700 miles from our house.
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Call the business and ask if they can share the technology, as you are looking for something like that, than can provide phone lookup and email.
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04-22-2019, 04:16 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
Posts: 9,722
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Originally Posted by Spock
My first guess is that the restaurants credit card processor provides the phone number lookup as part of their processing fees.
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Now I'm curious. My first guess is Opentable or something like that, where it was used in the past, and forgotten. But they did not forget the customer!
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04-22-2019, 04:20 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,662
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Originally Posted by CDRE
You can also use Firefox and add the extension "Google Analytics Blocker".
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Funny thing, with all my paranoia, I don't find Google Analytics all that intrusive. It's more for the web site manager to figure out statistics about how their site is used, than any individual tracking. Not that they couldn't do that, too, it just seems less aggressive than the dedicated "spy" trackers.
Anyway, far better to block them all with something like Ghostery, than just the one.
I should point out that most of these blocking technologies allow exceptions. I whitelist e-r.org so that the browser keeps cookies and automatically logs me on. I'm more careful with banks and on-line merchants. I don't want someone who happens upon my laptop to be able to get into those without knowing my password.
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04-22-2019, 05:03 PM
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#67
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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...not doing anything of true substance...
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04-27-2019, 05:48 AM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 10
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It’s everywhere
I work in cyber security and trust me unless someone has lived 100% off the grid their whole life and stuffs money in a tree somewhere to live on, everyone’s stuff is everywhere. The best thing you can do to protect identity is freeze credit.
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04-27-2019, 06:37 AM
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#69
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
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Originally Posted by CaptTom
Funny story about others with the same name:
Long ago, I snagged my real name as a gmail account. I never really use it. It turns out there are a few others with the same name as me. At least one of them must have a similar e-mail account, and sometimes types it in wrong. So I occasionally get his mail.
So far, I've gotten certified as a PADI diver in the Caribbean, gotten an estimate for a construction job on Long Island, NY and found out that I have an income tax refund due for some part-time work I did in New Zealand. My namesake really gets around!
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Back in the 90s, I googled my name and the first hit was for my memorial service. I was a gay man who just died of Aids. Since then, there are many more variety of hits naturally.
I also give my phone number to Radio Shack!
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04-27-2019, 08:13 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,729
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Quote:
Originally Posted by court6449
I work in cyber security and trust me unless someone has lived 100% off the grid their whole life and stuffs money in a tree somewhere to live on, everyone’s stuff is everywhere. The best thing you can do to protect identity is freeze credit.
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Good to know.
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04-28-2019, 10:56 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2009
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Back in the 1980s, my bank at the time had misspelled my street name (I have since moved). My bank statements still arrived normally despite the small error. However, some of the junk mail I got had that same slightly misspelled address, so I know exactly how the sender got it - from that bank!
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