You're Privacy May Be In Jeopardy Because Of Google

Gee Pyewacket, thanks a lot for bringing this to our attention here :( and you so right about the risks all of us have with the private infos displayed online. After all - it wasn't us requesting it, and according to me this should never have happened to begin with. Organisations and busin esses should be more aware of the risks we all are having due to having our private infos displayed online without our concense. hmmm, this is bad, very bad indeed :( TheFortunes

Pye, I don't see where someone having a phone number makes a difference. I don't know your number so how could I be locating you. There are millions of phone numbers in the white pages w/ addresses but how does that effect your privacy?

Not even paying to have an unlisted number is safe anymore- from what I have heard if someone is dilligent enough they can still find you! Besides having children, which in itself is a legitmate concern for having this info public, I have a schizophrenic father which is a HUGE concern! He doesn't know where I live but he does know my phone number and if there ever were a time that he would feel I was in impending danger or a threat to his security or anything sililar he could easily track me and my family down and do whatever it is he feels is necessary to protect me from these "dangers". In the case of someone with such a severe disorder that action could be much more serious than telling me to run from the house! When I was an infant he broke down my front door to my mom's apartment to try to steal me. He had decided that I needed to be rescued or something so he just kicked the door down in one fell swoop. When the police asked him about it he said it was already like that when he got there from the "bad guys". So not only is this information an invasion of privacy, it could be dangerous in some cases. It is getting easier and easier for the real bad guys to find you and your children and families and more and more difficult for us to protect ourselves from it all. If you want complete privacy you either have to pay a bucketload of money or cancel any and all services in which you have to use personally identifying information. Even opting to have your info removed from this list (which I did do!) I am sure there are so many other ways for people to find this stuff out if they really want to.

I am so affraid now. How can I contact white pages? I don't want my information to be provided to others. I would like also erased my info from zaba search, but I don't know how. Any tips? There is no contact info on any of those sites.

Thanks for the heads up, I have to be getting off the computer here real soon, but as soon as I get back from running my errands I will definately be going through and searching out, and making sure that things are on the up and up.

Wow I did know about this, but never really thought about it. I will be taking mesures to take care of this. I don't want everyone and his brother knowing all my info. But I guess once we get on the internet our lives really aren't our own anymore.

yup this is a very good idea

Hey thatnks for that piece of advice n information. My phone # doesnt come up though, I can pass this information around. Happy posting.

Honestly I like those options very much. They are a kind of service that helps me find friends long lost (like last year I tracked down a friend from 10 years ago), adresses I need to go to (used pretty often) and in case I lost phonenumbers or adresses on current friends. Im also very happy that they can do the same with me. A months time ago my old classmates where tracking down everyone from our class to invite them to a 10 year reunion.. I would have missed that if they hadnt been able to, since all I know from back then dont know me now, and my background.. parents old friends and such dont live where they did either. So yeah... its kewl that its possible to find ppl. Im not at all scared about bad people knowing it either. Chances that they are coming to get me, because of those sites is so slim its not calculated in %, but rather %s of %s %. And criminals using for anything but what we do? I honestly think thats even smaller.. if they wanna break into your house they dont visit the maps or phone registers to check out where you live, they go directly to your house and break in regardless of your info online.

You are absolutely right,pyewacket. I had never visited whitepages.com before, and I was shocked to find all of my information there. My telephone number is not even supposed to be listed! Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for giving us information. I have a private listed number actually. Hope you help our other friends here in mylot to be aware of this.

well omg... i cant believe this.. i just went to that site and i put my number in there and by gosh it was right. i did notice that the only thing that was not right was the milage from the nearest intersection. it was off by a few miles. but still that is nuts.. i am going to remove it as soon as i have my husband look at it so he dont think i am crazy...lol... thank you for the info

There are some people you can't find out about or can't get much information about anyways.

I put in my number, and nothing at all came up. I guess I'm just really lucky. We don't have an unlisted number, and I don't remember ever having our number removed from there. Guess I'll just count my blessings! LOL

My Number is unlisted and always has been There are other Sites where People type in your Name, it will bring the same thing up to

Thank you for telling me.

Did you ever hear of this website?...www.intelius.com...? You can find out any information you want about anybody, including SS#, DOB, Address, Telephone, etc., etc., etc.,.......you have to pay but from what it looks like, as long as you pay they'll tell you what you want to know. Now THAT'S scary.