type your phone number into google

If anyone gives out your phone number, someone can now look it
up to find out where you live. The safety issues are obvious, and alarming. Note that you can have your phone number removed or blocked. I tried my number and it came up along with the mapquestand directions straight to my house. Quite scary.
Please look up your own number. In order to test whether your phone number is mapped, go to: google (http://www.google.com/) Type yourphone number in the search bar (i.e. 555-555-1212) and hit enter.

If you want to B L O C K Google from divulging your private
information, simply click on your telephone number and
then click on the Removal Form. Removal takes 48-hours.

was my position on the map.

for the entire two plus years we've lived here. Noone I know.

Some guy named Larry Johnson that apparently is, in addition to being a deadbeat dad, also a regular contributor to enviromental and animal rights causes. People are strange.

I'm having mine removed. They have both my name and my husband's name, along with a map.

and it did not come up on a google search.

just by the act of googling your phone number you let google connect your phone number to your IP address. clever thing, that ol' internet!

:hi:

anywhere in the country, is in multiple reverse lookup databases.

If you really want phone/address privacy, Unlist yourself; otherwise, you're just shoveling sand against the tide trying to keep your name out of online lookups.

thanks

I guess that's a good thing. Thanks for the heads-up.

can be used to find out where people live and their telephone number. I used them to find friends that I knew 40 to 50 years ago.

Quite a few others out there, and they all get their info from the same place; telephone directories around the country.

If you really want phone/address privacy, Unlist yourself; otherwise, you're just shoveling sand against the tide trying to keep your name out of online lookups.

Now I have to wait 2 days.

but these guys did.

http://www.intelius.com/search-name.php?ReportType=1&

They appeared in an ad on the same page.

For $15.00, you can buy anyone's phone record!

btw; my home number is supposedly " unlisted".
Ha!

:grr:

my mobile phone number used to belong to a fire fighter union represenative,

That explains a lot. Hmm.

Now I know why someone keeps calling my house asking for Tanya.

with a name I don't even know :wtf:

I have been invaded by the body snatchers :freak:

Oh my God.

I had thought I had preserved my privacy.

Damn!

Guess it's worth paying AT&T for an unlisted number....

and my house phone didn't come up either.

Is this maybe just in some areas?

and if anyone goes there to stalk me, that nasty landlady will end up having to deal with it! :P

fortunately it is a condo building, and no unit number is given.

So what's with the mighty Google being scooped by Yahoo!?

My phone number is UNLISTED with the phone co for security reasons. This is very disturbing.

Yahoo had a similar thing and a few others.

to be something so inherently wrong about this. It's a reverse look-up to begin with, and why the hell is google doing this in the first place anyway?

I hate it that I have to go through a procedure with Google to get de-listed. I never gave them permission in the first place. I also I hate it that I have to pay the phone company extra to get an unlisted number.

mine and my husband's names & phone numbers.

Our phone number is listed under somebody else's name.

in phone books. People can reach me, but no one can find me. I got no match when I entered my phone number in google.

http://www.nps.navy.mil/rmmcnab/papers/Aid, Governance, and Growth (Final Draft - 12 Sep 02).pdf

I am not going to say which one is perdinate, but one of the names are.

...and I ditched the telcom line three years ago....

Dammit

I consider that a security breach if you're a private person.

Take THAT Verizon! Bwahahaha!

Pure pwnage. Fuck a landline.

HEY OLDSTERS! LANDLINES ARE A RELIC OF A BYGONE AGE!

Just like the milkman, "Better Dead than Red", and service with a smile...

Removed. Returned. Removed. Returned. My phone number is on a couple of websites for business reasons so perhaps that's why. *shrug*

HUGH sigh of relief!! It's a cell phone...that probably helps things.

Duh! The phone book lists our name and address. I want people to be able to contact me. Even if they use Goggle. Don't you? Look out - there are maps that show where you live and phone books. Talk about paranoid!

..."Tanked"?

Hell. With phone books, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED A PHONE NUMBER! Just your NAME.

Sheesh. Amazing what one can find objection to here. Holy Christ.

reverse lookup by phone number.

Oh and the program we use at work to input customers, if they give a phone number we search to see if there's an address out there for it.

that's a good thing.

Mine didn't come up I guess because it's unlisted. But I think it's a crock that we have to pay the phone company an extra 90 cents a month to keep it non-published.

in the same little burb, have had the same phone numbers for at least 20 years and are all listed in the local phone book. Tried an aunt and cousin that have been in the same place with same number for forever too and they're not listed either.

Seems to me there's more to getting listed than just being in the local directory. :shrug:

My address has been published in the White Pages along with my phone number and name for decades now, and I have never had cause to care. I can understand that some people do, and thus have an unlisted number, or restrict added information, and that's fine. I just don't see the point really.

That could explain some of the odd phone calls I've been getting.

:rofl:

simply go to one of the reverse directories out there if they have your telephone number and want your address?

What about in the old days, when no one had cell phones, everyone had landlines, and all of us were in the *gasp* "phone-book!" Why, back in those rough-and-ready days, when American society was one great lawless anarchy, if someone gave out your name, they could look up your address!!!! Right there in the phonebook!!! Or, if someone gave out your number, they could use that to get your NAME out of an AT&T operator, and then it was just a matter of letting their fingers do the walking, and again, quelle horreur, they could look up your actual address, and before you knew it, you and your family ended up in a bloody mess on the floor of the family home, victims to yet another home-invading mass murderer (who raped your children beforehand, it was always the pedophiliac murderers who knew how to work the phonebook. Bummer, that.)

tell it to Julia Hyatt Steele. bet you don't even know who she is, do you?


things have changed since the good old days of Jim Crow, the KKK, poll taxes, Barney Fife

it's not the fifties anymore

time to wake up, Rip

were somehow so much safer than now? ("Oh sure, when Jim Crow ruled, people could have their names in the phonebook and sleep at nights; those days are long gone, old-timer.")

I didn't know Julia Hyatt Steele. I gather that she faced uncalled-for pressure from Ken Starr or something. I'm not sure how that relates to the issue at hand.

you're very dim, though

maybe someday you'll get it

btw, what's your phone number?

what's your address?

what's your social security number?

how much do you weigh?

how often do you have sex?

amazing. we are SO screwed....

Phew. :-)

came up. I still told them to remove it.

I still thank you for this info --- Good to know!

That went out of business 25 years ago or so. Which is funny since my home number when I was growing up was one digit different from a "Fotomat" booth around the corner from where I grew up in Norwalk. Our phone never stopped ringing, it seemed.

(ring)
hello?
fotomat?
wrong number.
is this 863-6863?
Yup.
k.
click

This google thing is years old.

"type your phone number into google"?

Spend a few bucks. You'll be shocked about what you can find out about anyone whose name and birthdate you can provide... If you've ever been in civil court for any reason, bankruptcy, divorce, etc., there is a PUBLIC record. About YOU. Address included.

Secrecy is a thing of the past. Get over it.

Maybe a better way to look at it is this:

ACT RIGHT. DON'T FUCK ANYONE OVER. WE'RE WATCHING.

I don't exist! Na nah!

confused. :shrug:

:thumbsup:

If someone you have done business with online is using an unprotected server (unlikely but not impossible), it may be out there.

Nothing. Not even a blip. What's your point?

The number comes up all over the place though because of my husband's business, so I guess I won't worry about it. The map isn't right and I'm more concerned about that.

Something about the old writer character having removed all the bells from his phones, so he never knew if anyone was calling him.

It actually seems like an effective solution, but one with some downside, such as employers, relatives, and friends not being able to get through.

Benefit:Risk (Hmmm)