Online Privacy: Your Life Is an Open Book

This is an article about the site Spokeo.com, and how our life is almost like an open book that anyone can read.  For $2.95 you can get a month subscription on Spokeo.com, and on this site you can search where people live, what their name is, phone number, email address, education, relatives, profiles on other sites, age, marital status, etc.  Luckily this is only in the United States of America, but I am sure they are expanding.  This website uses algorithm to search public databases, so the information gathered is only as accurate as the sources, but generally it is quite accurate.  The web is becoming more people-centric, and the more information that people share online, the more connected everyone will be.  ABC News asked Spokeo's co-founder about the criticism. He told us, "We do not have people's social security numbers, we do not have people's driver's license numbers, we do not have people's bank account information, so I think, personally, that it is probably hard to steal people's information." (2010)  But they have almost every other little bit of information about you.  This is not illegal as the information gathered was already publicly released.  People now are worried about their safety, and criminals.  This is just a way of speeding up the process of another person finding you. The online world today is becoming a scary place.  The article is: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Media/people-search-engines-spokeo-make-easy-find-private/story?id=10768917#.ULWG2eRfAuA Check out Spokeo: http://www.spokeo.com/