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Thursday, June9, 2005
Who Knows What - About YOU?

Personal Privacy:

Who knows What about You??

Suppose there were a website that allowed someone - anyone with web access - to find out the following information about you...

  • addresses where you live or have lived over the past 10 years or so;
  • your phone numbers were (unlisted or not)
  • and what year you were born.

The website could also let them click on your address, access an overhead satellite photo of your neighborhood, and even zoom in on your particular house.

Would such a website be legal? Yes - and, though many people may not know it, it already exists ... and it's FREE!

It's called Zabasearch.com, and it's legal because, according to the site, its data come from publicly available government records and commercial sources.

For a brief discussion about the legality of this type of site, see When Data Democratization Verges on Privacy Invasion

 

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