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Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records?

If you don't have the records in the first place, how in the fuck are you supposed to know which records to go back and save?

Do you just go back and preserve the records for Los Angeles County? Well, what if she was born in Sacramento? What if she was born outside of the state? How are modern authorites supposed to not notice an exhaustive search of the birth records in every county in every state? Wheredoes it say that Sarah was even an American Citizen?

Have a look at this...
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=CA&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=

There are 13 Sarah Connors in California on this list. There's even one Sarah J Connor in there.

http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=ALL&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=

There are 176 in the country (that are on this list).

A name this arbitrary and common is going to be nearly impossible to track down without detailed knowledge, in advance.

LK

Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records?

If you don't have the records in the first place, how in the fuck are you supposed to know which records to go back and save?

Do you just go back and preserve the records for Los Angeles County? Well, what if she was born in Sacramento? What if she was born outside of the state? How are modern authorites supposed to not notice an exhaustive search of the birth records in every county in every state? Wheredoes it say that Sarah was even an American Citizen?

Have a look at this...
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=CA&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=

There are 13 Sarah Connors in California on this list. There's even one Sarah J Connor in there.

http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=ALL&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=

There are 176 in the country (that are on this list).

A name this arbitrary and common is going to be nearly impossible to track down without detailed knowledge, in advance.

LK

I don't think they are able to effectively maintain the secrecy you are claiming; there are plenty of companies that maintain databases of public records and sell the access to the general public. For example:

http://zabasearch.com/

That site will probably have a result for your name(for Americans); if you pay money, you can find out more about the records they got the information from. It isn't going to help you find out about a bad connection that one of their competitors has made, but it gives a sense of what is out there about you, likely to come up in other searches, and *easily* available.

For companies that won't sell you your own record, the only way that would work is if they were extremely selective about their clients, as all you have to do is have a trusted associate purchase the record from them. If you don't have a trusted associate, you can hire one, they are in the yellow pages under 'Attorneys'.

Jigsaw isn't putting up your grandmother's Social Security number, nor is it hosting pictures of you and your dog. All they host (and all they want) is business contact information. This isn't a violation of privacy... it's a boon for businesses to contact other businesses. It has no desire to be a Zabasearch clone.

If the submitter had bothered to read the article, they would've seen this very important message:

Jigsaw wants only business information. The company won't take home addresses, cell phone numbers or e-mail addresses from Gmail, AOL, Yahoo or other domains that are not identifiable business e-mails. "Jigsaw doesn't touch non-business information with a 10-foot pole..."

So there you go. Someone decides to conglomerate the information any moron can find in a "Contact" page on a corporate Web site, and the privacy nuts freak out — despite the fact that it has nothing to do with privacy. I love how some people commented about creating fake identites and submitting them. Well, unless Mr. John Doe has his own domain and business license, I don't think that fake info will do any good!

Perhaps CowboyNeal needs to see a psychiatrist about his manic-depressive and schizophrenic paranoia disorders. At the very least, he should apologize to Jigsaw (if not to all of Slashdot).

Oh no, my information is going to be sold and the government is going to allow tax preparers to sell it!

*gasp*

Let's narrow our fears on something a little more worrisome regarding privacy and the United States Government.

Ever filled out census information? Because, if you have, your information is available to anyone via a number of sites. That's right, for as cheap as an $8-$10 fee, people can find out what income range you are in along with a variety of other facts about you. They can also find out where you live for free!

I would normally thank god that I have a very non-unique name but if I enter my hometown and state, there I am listed five times with my address and parent's phone number. I was just a kid when I lived there! The best part is that if you click my name, they take the liberty to plug my address into Mapquest and Google Map bars in case you don't have the time to copy and paste it in there!

Go ahead, now try your name.

*cups his hand to his ear listening for the sound of a million nerds enshrouding themselves in tin foil*

I'm not worried about my personal information being sold to marketers ... you can send me all the marketing offers and SPAM you want. I am worried about someone with my same name trying to pass their credit card debt off on me. And I'm also worried about anyone I know who might have a problem with a stalker.

Do you know what your government is doing with your census data?

Given three sets of identity aggregate information:

1. Zip Code
2. Last Name
3. birth date

and you will have an EXCELLENT chance of nailing the person down.

Then go over to any one of those paid people finder lookup and presto, SSN.

Perfect recipe for identity theft (groan).

Please see my Slashdot post in how best to solve this problem.

ZabaSearch

He's the first Eric E. Schmidt on zabasearch. The issue is that he needs to get over the fact that privacy does not exist, unless you accidentally fill out false Change of Address forms every month.

If Google gets most of the data, Zabasearch can also help.

http://www.zabasearch.com/

The easiest way to find out about someone. Just type in a name...

I fail to understand how any discussion of privacy can possibly take place w/out mentioning ZabaSearch.

I even submitted it to /. the other day, but I guess the editors didn't want any random /.er to search for their home phone numbers and every single place they've ever lived.

http://zabasearch.com/ this pulled up everyone i knows info, this sucks.

http://www.zabasearch.com/

I tried to submit a story about http://zabasearch.com/ violating privacy and was denied..

Next time I submit a story on slashdot, I'll have to somehow associate it with Apple just to get someone's attention...

One of my clients made me aware of it today. Go there and look up a few people you know. Looks like you'll be able to buy a ton of info on people from these bastards for $20.

It's going to be a stalker and identity thief's dream.