Lsbcal
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
I met someone who told me of some books he was writing on some historical subject. I was doing a plein air (outdoor) oil painting at the time and could not give this my full attention. Later I thought I'd look him up but he was not listed on Amazon. Went to Google and one of the links was to spokeo.com. This site seemed to give a little info but then wanted $'s for more. I just wanted to find out if this guy had written anything I'd be interested in but instead wound up looking at an invasive personnel info site -- felt like pornography to me.
So on spokeo.com I put in my name. There were about 25 people with my name listed but if I clicked the correct city, bingo ... it was me. Out popped my rough age and a picture of my house (probably from Google) along with some info available for $'s like my phone number, email, address, etc. And I do not even participate on Facebook or other pretty invasive sites and yet here was stuff I would not want others to get into.
Then I looked up "spokeo" and found a few unflattering discussions about their intrusiveness. There is a way to wipe your info from the site but it involves some "opt-out" work and is not guaranteed to be lasting. You can actually go to "DeleteMe" and for $129/year pay them to wipe you off of 17 other sites.
Strange world out there. Trust no one, I guess.
P.S. My mention of this has nothing in my mind to do with the politics surrounding the recent Snowden affair. I'm just concerned about what private individuals can get up to on the regular old web.
So on spokeo.com I put in my name. There were about 25 people with my name listed but if I clicked the correct city, bingo ... it was me. Out popped my rough age and a picture of my house (probably from Google) along with some info available for $'s like my phone number, email, address, etc. And I do not even participate on Facebook or other pretty invasive sites and yet here was stuff I would not want others to get into.
Then I looked up "spokeo" and found a few unflattering discussions about their intrusiveness. There is a way to wipe your info from the site but it involves some "opt-out" work and is not guaranteed to be lasting. You can actually go to "DeleteMe" and for $129/year pay them to wipe you off of 17 other sites.
Strange world out there. Trust no one, I guess.
P.S. My mention of this has nothing in my mind to do with the politics surrounding the recent Snowden affair. I'm just concerned about what private individuals can get up to on the regular old web.