No more disturbing than Google really. Today's reality is that if you put information on the internet that can be tied to your name, email, address, phone number, etc, then that information can be found and used for or against you. Improvements in search will make finding this information easier and easier.
and crucially, in a way that is currently of little but growing significance, such information will never go away or shrink .
I find this startup rather disturbing...
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#23Finding all the places you've used your e-mail address that you forgot about: $15 Deleting your profiles from these places: Priceless
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#24Isn't this similar to Spock? (www.spock.com) For those who never visited Spock, you entered an email address and it tracked you all over the web. Now it looks like Spock requires logging in to work.
Yeah. And Spokeo is old, old news. Really, it's a matter of what you make available. I can't imagine "stalking" somebody ever really being a good use of time. What bad things are there to find? Drunken pictures? And that's on Facebook, behind a wall.
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#25How are they getting access to facebook profiles???
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#27How are they getting access to facebook profiles???
Facebook permitting this app to operate will give it serious legal trouble in the EU.
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#28I find it rather inevitable. Seems like a killer business model, and it's probably 500 lines of PHP (or whatever). Pretty much just coin-operated at this point, nice steady revenue stream, wish I had thought of it.
When they launched, Spokeo had a really nice Flash client too for aggregating RSS news about the people you're following.
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#29I think the most interesting thing about them is that they switched from free to pay, overnight, without warning. Have many other software service startups done that?
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#30Or I could just get a new email, but then I'd have no audience and possibly miss out on some interesting conversation.
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