A new website is giving people too much info, private info. Unlike Google, this new website, Spokeo.com, can aggregate and condense personal info from hundreds of different sites and place it all into one handy report. This is web stalking to the next level. The new website, Spokeo.com can even get info from social media networks like Facebook and MySpace. Even scarier, it can find your credit info and home address, as well as your phone numbers. It finds your info through other random sites with your business listings, housing listings, marketing surveys, phone bills, census information, phone listings and more. Since it’s online and new, there aren’t any laws that really limit it. So for now, we may be in danger of having too much info too readily available to ANYONE. Thought there is a way to protect yourself and your loved ones from the Spokeo.com free personal info listings: 1. Go to the new website Spokeo.com 2. Search for your own name. It’s possible to narrow down the search for yourself by adding your city and state. 3. If you get results, click on your own name and address in the list of all the results. Go to the info page that was listed for you. 4. Copy the long URL of that page. The URL is the page address of your unique name that comes up. It should be in your web address bar on the top of your browser and should start out with a look something like this – http://spokeo.com/search…… 5. Now you will have to open the site by clicking on the link that says “Remove from Spokeo” 6. Paste the URL of your own info that you found earlier into the space that asks for your URL. 7. You need to put in a valid Email address. This email will be used to recieve a message and confirmation from Spokeo.com with a link to complete the removal of your name. So it must be a valid email address. You can set up a new email address if you would like so as not to give your old one. 8. Enter the code that is given to you and then click the link that says “Remove from Spokeo” so that you will be removed from Spokeo.com. 9. Finish the process by checking your email for the email that was sent by Spokeo.com and click on the link provided by Spokeo.com. 10. Try searching for yourself again after about an hour. If it did not work, try doing it one more time. Make sure your name is gone to protect your personal information and identity. If it is still there, repeat steps then if it again does not work. Try to contact a Spokeo.com representattve. Please do inform your friends and loved ones about this so that they too may protect themselves. More info about Spokeo.com is available online. Spokeo.com Free Personal Private Info Too Easy to Access. Protect Your Online Identity Now! is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Spokeo.com Free Personal Private Info Too Easy to Access. Protect Your Online Identity Now!
