[lit-ideas] Re: Spokeo
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:40:46 -0700
Julie,
I am not on "google talk, fb, myspace, twitter, etc"; so they don't have
very much information about me. They have my age, the most recent
assessment of the price of my house for tax purposes, my birthdate and that
I'm married, but they don't know to whom. They do have my current address,
but the only time the availability of that got me in trouble was back in
2008 when a vengeful dog breeder sent the anti-terrorist task force to my
house because I carried a gun at the river during coyote season. I'm not
hard to find. There is only one Lawrence Helm living in San Jacinto
California. I'm in the phone book.
Lawrence
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 6:47 AM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Spokeo
My address is likewise very old, the "hobbies" they show are some I've never
typed into any profile, etc. I think you have to join in order to update
the info...or maybe you can't from there. I'm annoyed enough to go back to
profiles I've set up in the past (google talk, fb, myspace, twitter, etc.)
and make them current. I think that's where they get their info. I'm
troubled by it because I want to choose which people have access to my
personal info. I give my address to people if they're people I want to have
it. I worry about things like potential employers, etc. I, too, Mike,
didn't pay to find out what else they "knew" about me, but god only knows
what they say about my "economic health". To me this has real implications
beyond just individual people we know....
Julie Krueger
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:52 AM, carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I tell myself it's just like the old phone book. Remember when people
usually didn't keep their numbers or addresses hidden? When women sometimes
went to the great bother of listing their first names with an initial only?
Not much has changed, no point in getting paranoid. Someone you hate has
sought you out? Blow them off. It's not that critical.
ck,
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well, I did, just now. The address they have for me is 6 years out of date
-- that's encouraging. I wasn't about to pay for information about myself
that I know better than anyone else. It's hard to hide anymore.
Mike Geary
Memphis
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Have any of you looked yourselves up on Spokeo? Go ahead. I dare you.
http://www.spokeo.com/
Julie Krueger
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