How Easy Is It To Spy On Your Friends Online?
WSJ - May 13, 2008 - D1
It’s easier than you might think. Googling someone is so 2007. These days publicly available information is free and at your fingertips. You may want to check out these services to see what dirt you can dig up on yourself before someone else finds it.
- Zabasearch.com - Provides criminal history and birth dates
- Spock.com and Wink.com - Offers “people” search engines that find personal web pages, such as social networking profiles, buried in the web
- Spokeo.com - Displays activity of friends on other web sites (including online shopping lists)
- Zillow.com - Estimates the value of your home
- Fundrace.huffingtonpost.com - Displays individual campaign donations
- Jigsaw.com - Shares business card data among users
Many other online sites make some quasi-private information public by default. The list includes your Amazon.com wish list, Pandora.com personal music stations, Flickr.com photos, del.icio.us saved web site links and Google’s street view of your home. Many people opt-in to provide even more information to the public.
Tags: Personal Information, Web Privacy