opting out of on-line reverse phone/address lookup

[Joe Spinden]

Does anybody have any suggestions for removing your information from
reverse look-up directories ?

This came up because I listed an item for sale on Craigslist.  Several
replies I received made me think they were actually trying to set up a
robbery by getting my home address.  After thinking about it some more,
it occurred to me that if I provided a phone number, they could possibly
use that as well.  I discovered there are many on-line services offering
to do this sort of look up, including Google.  It appears that each of
the individual look up services provide a way to remove yourself from
their service, but that would do nothing for the other services.  So,
you need a way to remove yourself from the databases these services are
purchasing.  (In any case, the Google website for name removal does not
work !)

Joe

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"Sunlight is the best disinfectant."

   -- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913.


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[Nick Thompson]

Joe,

I do internet paranoia as good as the next guy, but it occurred to me to
wonder why knowing your address from an ad on ebay would identify the house
as worthy of robbery any more than choosing a house a random.  

Am I missing an real chance to feel persecuted?  By Google?  

Nick

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Subject: [FRIAM] opting out of on-line reverse phone/address lookup

Does anybody have any suggestions for removing your information from reverse
look-up directories ?

This came up because I listed an item for sale on Craigslist.  Several
replies I received made me think they were actually trying to set up a
robbery by getting my home address.  After thinking about it some more, it
occurred to me that if I provided a phone number, they could possibly use
that as well.  I discovered there are many on-line services offering to do
this sort of look up, including Google.  It appears that each of the
individual look up services provide a way to remove yourself from their
service, but that would do nothing for the other services.  So, you need a
way to remove yourself from the databases these services are purchasing.
(In any case, the Google website for name removal does not work !)

Joe

--

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant."

   -- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913.


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[Joe Spinden]

If you offer to sell something worth, say, $1,000, then you have
identified yourself as having that thing. No ?  And perhaps other things
as well..

Joe



On 2/24/12 12:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Joe,
>
> I do internet paranoia as good as the next guy, but it occurred to me to
> wonder why knowing your address from an ad on ebay would identify the house
> as worthy of robbery any more than choosing a house a random.
>
> Am I missing an real chance to feel persecuted?  By Google?
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf
> Of joseph spinden
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:24 PM
> To: Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] opting out of on-line reverse phone/address lookup
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions for removing your information from reverse
> look-up directories ?
>
> This came up because I listed an item for sale on Craigslist.  Several
> replies I received made me think they were actually trying to set up a
> robbery by getting my home address.  After thinking about it some more, it
> occurred to me that if I provided a phone number, they could possibly use
> that as well.  I discovered there are many on-line services offering to do
> this sort of look up, including Google.  It appears that each of the
> individual look up services provide a way to remove yourself from their
> service, but that would do nothing for the other services.  So, you need a
> way to remove yourself from the databases these services are purchasing.
> (In any case, the Google website for name removal does not work !)
>
> Joe
>
>
> --
>
> "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
>
>    -- Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1913.

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