Internet people search.........

[Dave Rifkin]

Someone told me that you could enter a name in the people search area on a search engine and your name, address and phone number will be displayed. I decided to test this out to see if my name came up. Mine didn't show but, my wife's did with our phone number, address, residence history; etc.
I found this to bit a bit disturbing and I was wondering if anyone knew how to get your information removed from these types of searches?

Dave

[Hylton]

Hate to tell you but these days the only way to get rid of that stuff is to have a P.O. box and an unlisted phone number. Most of the information is gathered from 3rd party sites. If you give your address and phone number to a company or organization, the information can be obtained.

[427.060]

I had an ex girlfriend find my phone number using the internet search. I hadn't talked to her in close to 15 years. My wife wasn't real happy with her calling me.
James
James

[Mr70]

Steve Fossett should be so lucky.

[Hylton]

Hey Dave,

What do you think of this? Click on the satellite button and zoom in:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en...amp;iwloc=addr

[SS427]

Interesting. Depending on which site you look at the house is on one end of the street or the other. The site that I often use has a birds eye view of the house with that address entered and shows it on the oposite end of that street then your site. Your site shows a house with a fenced in back yard with a pool. My site shows a white house (no pool), door in the middle front, brown fence around the back yard with a nice looking rock, tree garden in the NE corner, garage on the SE end of the house next to a very large tree. Appears to have a wreath on the front door though the tree is covered with leaves so I don't think that would be a wreath that time of year. I won't post the site as it give out too much personal information and since it likely belongs to Dave, he might not appreciate that.

[Dave Rifkin]

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Hey Dave,

What do you think of this? Click on the satellite button and zoom in:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en...amp;iwloc=addr

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Yea, I've seen that crap too; unreal.

[427TJ]

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I had an ex girlfriend find my phone number using the internet search. I hadn't talked to her in close to 15 years. My wife wasn't real happy with her calling me.

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So was the ex good-looking?

Just kidding!