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What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You
cweditor writes in with an updated version of a story the likes of which you might have read before, What the Web Knows About You. But reporter Rob Mitchell found out vastly more about himself (his research subject) online than he could have even a year or two ago. The big difference is that state and local governments are putting online digitized records, often with Social Security numbers and other personal details intact. Mitchell ends by questioning how much good it does for banks or credit card companies to require 4, 5, or more independent identity "factors" before providing access to account details, when most or all of the factors they request can be found online about nearly anyone.
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Not surprising in the least. There are many of these services online and the free ones are little more then goggling your own name if anything.
OTOH there are pay services like lexis.com and others that i used to use in my skip tracing days. Now with nothing more then a name and a county i could usually get everything from SSN's to VIN numbers of cars you have/do own. DL number's phone number's (including potentially unlisted). Hell itll tell me if your married divorced (with links to the pdf's of the court papers if available). Employment history (with a list of associates employed at the same places around the same times as you.
About the only thing it wont tell me is your dog's name so there is no surprise to me.
I dont even have to go online to find out your address and phone numbers. If i know what kind of car you drive. Chrysler has an 800 number that you put in the first 5 digits of the last name and it will give me address and phone number on record...