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    Exclamation Your Personal Info Exposed!!!

    Has your Personal Info been exposed? A site called Spokeo is a new online USA phone book w/personal info: pics you've posted on FB or web, your approx credit score, home value, income, age, etc. You can remove yourself! Search for yourself on their site (don't buy the access), copy that URL of your page, and then go to the bottom of the home page and click on the PRIVACY button to remove yourself.

    This is no joke...I found every member of my family there along with all the information stated above.

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    How do they get away with this?
    The FCC should take this site offline for a violation of every privacy law.

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    I doubt they are in violation of privacy laws. They are simply aggregating data from numerous publicly available sources and putting it all in one place. Have a look on their help page and it explains things in more detail.
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    I understand that...
    But releasing people's credit scores and income would be a violation of privacy laws by making it publicly available for anyone to view....

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    The financial details appear to be estimates, probably based on location/age etc. Again, I doubt they are in violation of laws. Based on the press coverage they have had too much exposure in mainstream media places to be doing anything illegal and still getting away with it.

    Anyway, we are both debating something neither of us know enough about so it's all speculation. I don't necessarily agree with it, however, if people are willing to spend time and resources creating a product with an obvious need then good luck to them.
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    That just doesn't seem right at all regardless if the info is out there. Why are they selling the info to other people.

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    Wow, if its not violating any laws they are definitely cutting it pretty close there... Stalkers are going to love this site

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    From what I see, it seems to be the same type of info other sites charge to provide. It is available to anyone interested enough to find it, but usually at a price, or from a variety of other sources.
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    We don't realize how much personal information is really there until a site like this puts it all in one place.
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    Yep, sure enough I was listed on there, I don't think the numbers are very accurate, but scary nonetheless. Thanks for the heads up!

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    I dont live in the US so I am not going to bother checking it out.....
    But if anyone finds a Canadian version of this I would love to know about it.

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