Joe, I do internet paranoia as good as the next guy, but it occurred to me to wonder why knowing your address from an ad on ebay would identify the house as worthy of robbery any more than choosing a house a random.
Am I missing an real chance to feel persecuted? By Google? Nick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of joseph spinden Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:24 PM To: Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] opting out of on-line reverse phone/address lookup Does anybody have any suggestions for removing your information from reverse look-up directories ? This came up because I listed an item for sale on Craigslist. Several replies I received made me think they were actually trying to set up a robbery by getting my home address. After thinking about it some more, it occurred to me that if I provided a phone number, they could possibly use that as well. I discovered there are many on-line services offering to do this sort of look up, including Google. It appears that each of the individual look up services provide a way to remove yourself from their service, but that would do nothing for the other services. So, you need a way to remove yourself from the databases these services are purchasing. (In any case, the Google website for name removal does not work !) Joe -- "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
