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#1

freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 8:57am

I found my personal information on this database. Along with maps to my home, and an aerial view.

Subject: Personal Information with DOB, address and Phone Number

Beginning this month (May '05) a new database became available to the general public, free of charge, that displays your personal information (names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates).

The database is found at www.zabasearch.com.

I urge you to forward this email to family and friends. Check to see if your name and information is in their database. If so and you want it removed, send them an e-mail at info@zabasearch.com to request it be removed.

After opting out by email, check back after a few days to make certain your information has been removed.

Displaying such information should be a crime.

Zabasearch

Updated On: 6/15/05 at 08:57 AM

#2

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 9:02am

1. That is scary crap. Scary. Scary. Scary.
2. Your Liam quote is one of the funniest things I've ever read...
#3

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 9:19am

Unfortunately, there are many sites on the web that contain an individual's personal information. Some of these sites even sell information about a person.
#4

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 10:18am

and it's all public material, and legal.......
still bugs me, but oh well
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#5

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 10:47am

also, if you have AOL, make sure you're not listed in their people search directory... not only does that give you the person's home address, home phone, and backround check, but also gives you a map to their house.
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#10

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:24am

Of course...now we know which BWW-ers are lying about their age!

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#11

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:33am

I'm sorry, but I have forgotten, Joey, what's your last name again?
PEACE.
#13

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:36am

What's so creepy about it? Good lord, people are paranoid! I read somewhere there there is A BOOK out there where they list everyone's Name Address and PHONE NUMBER! And it's published every year and a big truck comes by and leaves a copy on everyone's door step! It's called a PHONE BOOK.

Do folks just sit around and look for things to worry about?
#14

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:38am

Good Lord, I put in my mother's name and every house she lived in since she was a child came up.

How can they sell "background material" on people?

This makes my skin crawl.
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#15

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:41am

Theatrediva, That same thing happened to me. Old, old addresses and phone numbers turned up,as well as, current ones. Scary.

By the way, that school you'll be attending sounds great!
#16

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:41am

On the other hand, it'll make throwing a surprise party for Corine that much easier.
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#18

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:45am

Sueleen, I can see right into your backyard!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2
#19

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:48am

Thanks for the warning, Diva, now I'll have to cover my tush and risk a tan line!

By the way, Namo, on the up side...now we can just have the party at Corine's place!
PEACE.
#20

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:49am

Joe, I pretty much agree with you. Yes, we may each (or each residence at least) get a copy of our local phone directory ... and yes, if anyone's listed publicly in any phone book, that info can be obtained from information. I guess the diff. is that the internet makes all this info so readily accessible, it's like receiving every phone book in America at your doorstep instead of just your local one.

I think the only real way to get and stay off of these people search sites is to just have an unlisted number, period. Otherwise, even if you request removal now, next time a new phone book comes out, I think they can relist it.

No huge deal for me. It's not so much scary as just another thing to get used to in the modern age. If I'm found, I'm found! lol


P.S. Now the background check stuff is kinda scary. Seems only people like law enforcement and potential employees ... people like that should be able to pay for and access that. Maybe I'm not seeing something here I should see as to why every Tom, Dick and Jane should be able to do this ... my initial reaction is that this is a bit much. I'm so boring if anyone paid to check my background they'd demand their money back. :)

Updated On: 6/15/05 at 11:49 AM

#21

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 11:55am

On the other hand, now you know where Greg Jbara lives. So you can show up with a cupcake!
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#22

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 12:02pm

LOL Namo ... if anyone took a cupcake there, not sure who'd come to the door, but it wouldn't be Greg. That address is way old!
:)
#24

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 12:04pm

I'm there.... under an old address. Big deal. It's like an online phone book. It's all public information.
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#25

re: freaky website - privacy concerns

Posted: 6/15/05 at 12:05pm

The lack of privacy is staggering that most people don't even realize it. You can call any automated airline and say someone's last name and get all their flight information (as the paparnazi's do), lists like this are basically people who order from catalogs or magazine subscriptions and put their full name down. Most information isn't private and as for the background info, real estate agents use it, schools do and legislation like Megan's Law give people info to almost anyone's background.
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