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Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license hi

Let's see, you got...my name, my spouse's name, my work email, my personal email, our birthdays, at least 5 of my former addresses, my whole driver's license history, where I went to college, where I went to high school, every company I've worked for, my mom's name, my parent's names, and my gender. That's more than I expected that you could get, wow. One thing your site could do but doesn't is tell me WHERE it got that information, like exactly where. Why just say "publicly available data?" I want to know precisely where you got all this on me, with annotations. Without that information, this is just a scary page that encourages me to sign up for nebulous services.

ahaseeb 4y ago
Your suggestions are well taken. We should do a better job on the page however we're limited on what info to display & sources due to privacy laws and to prevent misuse
- CobrastanJorji 4y ago
  Even "we knows this because we bought a package of such & such data from Data Broker LLC" would be great.
  - jimhi 4y ago
    We use a ton of sources. You can google data brokers and try some. But just because you find one and get them to remove the info, doesn't mean it is gone.
- snoopy_telex 4y ago
  So you can display the private information, but you can't display where it came from due to privacy laws? Can you cite which privacy laws protect the source of the publicly available information?
  - prepend 4y ago
    I doubt it’s privacy laws and more likely the terms of service from their data broker. The data broker probably doesn’t allow it and if they reveal the source, they will be cut off. Their source must be cheap enough to do stuff like this so it probably rules out DataAxle, Elsevier and Oracle.
    - JasonFruit 4y ago
      It seems to me like the data source would welcome the free advertising.
      - ahaseeb 4y ago
        Not really since it's a wholesale arrangement and don't deal with retail
      - qorrect 4y ago
        Having run a few background check websites where there was a data broker ... no they hate the attention. I got a visit from the FBI for using the name of their database ( we could show the results from the DB, but we could not use the name of it publicly) , which they updated on their website to say 'restricted' but did not email us or call us. This was early 2000's.
        snoopy_telex 4y ago
        Why would the FBI be interested in a civil (contractual) violation between companies?
        qorrect 4y ago
        Edit: I said it wrong in the initial post the FBI visited for a different reason. They thought I had 'hacked in'. My landlady at the time worked as a secretary at the FBI and misunderstood or did not know the data could be purchased legally through a third party, after I told her what I was doing at a dinner at their house which they invited me to. I was extremely hung over when they came, I was 25, and did not at all believe they were agents I slammed the door on them (one of them had converse sneakers with their suits though). They slowly convinced me they were in fact legit, I showed them all the paperwork, and shut the site down due to caution. Gave me a good story to tell, ~2005.
- GameOfFrowns 4y ago
  >we're limited on what info to display & sources due to privacy laws and to prevent misuse Of course. We're not not allowed to know who sold our personal data to shady 3rd parties due to "privacy laws". Hilarious.
  - ahaseeb 4y ago
    There are dozens of data brokers if not less and you can google for them. There are dozens of data removal companies too. It's probably a billion dollar industry trading your personal info. We're neither a data broker not a data removal. We're in business of securing Mobile numbers and our goal was to create awareness and help people make informed decision about their mobile number security. We'll have to acquire different set of licenses if we ever have to step into these industries.
codegeek 4y ago
You will be surprised how much personal info. is available on various websites. Do a google search on yourself and enjoy.

ahaseeb 4y ago

Your suggestions are well taken. We should do a better job on the page however we're limited on what info to display & sources due to privacy laws and to prevent misuse

CobrastanJorji 4y ago
Even "we knows this because we bought a package of such & such data from Data Broker LLC" would be great.
- jimhi 4y ago
  We use a ton of sources. You can google data brokers and try some. But just because you find one and get them to remove the info, doesn't mean it is gone.
snoopy_telex 4y ago
So you can display the private information, but you can't display where it came from due to privacy laws? Can you cite which privacy laws protect the source of the publicly available information?
- prepend 4y ago
  I doubt it’s privacy laws and more likely the terms of service from their data broker. The data broker probably doesn’t allow it and if they reveal the source, they will be cut off. Their source must be cheap enough to do stuff like this so it probably rules out DataAxle, Elsevier and Oracle.
  - JasonFruit 4y ago
    It seems to me like the data source would welcome the free advertising.
    - ahaseeb 4y ago
      Not really since it's a wholesale arrangement and don't deal with retail
    - qorrect 4y ago
      Having run a few background check websites where there was a data broker ... no they hate the attention. I got a visit from the FBI for using the name of their database ( we could show the results from the DB, but we could not use the name of it publicly) , which they updated on their website to say 'restricted' but did not email us or call us. This was early 2000's.
      - snoopy_telex 4y ago
        Why would the FBI be interested in a civil (contractual) violation between companies?
        qorrect 4y ago
        Edit: I said it wrong in the initial post the FBI visited for a different reason. They thought I had 'hacked in'. My landlady at the time worked as a secretary at the FBI and misunderstood or did not know the data could be purchased legally through a third party, after I told her what I was doing at a dinner at their house which they invited me to. I was extremely hung over when they came, I was 25, and did not at all believe they were agents I slammed the door on them (one of them had converse sneakers with their suits though). They slowly convinced me they were in fact legit, I showed them all the paperwork, and shut the site down due to caution. Gave me a good story to tell, ~2005.
GameOfFrowns 4y ago
>we're limited on what info to display & sources due to privacy laws and to prevent misuse Of course. We're not not allowed to know who sold our personal data to shady 3rd parties due to "privacy laws". Hilarious.
- ahaseeb 4y ago
  There are dozens of data brokers if not less and you can google for them. There are dozens of data removal companies too. It's probably a billion dollar industry trading your personal info. We're neither a data broker not a data removal. We're in business of securing Mobile numbers and our goal was to create awareness and help people make informed decision about their mobile number security. We'll have to acquire different set of licenses if we ever have to step into these industries.

codegeek 4y ago

You will be surprised how much personal info. is available on various websites. Do a google search on yourself and enjoy.