Posted on 07/30/2004 6:16:08 PM PDT by Revel
I just want to share with you what I found. I could not believe it when I saw it. Check your drivers license. Now you can see anyone's Driver's License on the Internet, including your own! I just searched for mine and there it was, picture and all! Thanks Homeland Security! Privacy, where is our right to it? I definitely removed mine, I suggest you do the same.
Go to the website and check it out. Just enter your name, city and state to see if yours is on file. After your license comes on the screen, click the box marked "Please Remove". This will remove it from public viewing, but not from law enforcement.
http://www.license.shorturl.com/
ha ha ha! I fell for it.
Me too. Pranksters.. rrrr (and now I've got a dating service in my history files, my wife will appreciate that)
I don't know if they are...It is not very personal...But I was smart and entered someone elses name first. Nothing you can't get out of any phone book.
I didn't use my own name....hehe
Exactly.
Then based on your IP they can track what Web sites you've been to so they can direct advertising your way (or worse).
You had me going there for a minute...I have been looking for my high school sweetheart for awhile now and my heart was in my throat! (Ass!)
That's not me! I don't wear glasses!
Larry King's was there.
GOTCHA!
This site does not ask to set cookies. Most people do not have the same IP address each time they log in. I would think this would be a rather poor way to get any usable personal information on anyone. All I know is that the first time I saw it was right here on FR when the same gag was pulled on me. Somewhere back in time there is a thread like this on FR...And it is not even in chat. I was going add Humor into the topic, but it is already done.
You suck!;-)
You are scum!!!
Google Research of thread title provide these links:
http://www.truthminers.com/truth/drivers_license.htm
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/license.htm
"Perhaps more amusing than this old joke (I had a circus clown take my "photograph" with a prop camera when I was six years old, and that one turned out to be a picture of a monkey, too!) is the amount of mail forwarded to us by alarmed readers who have received similar messages and are worried that they're genuine but are afraid to check for themselves. Simply visiting one of these sites and attempting to look up a "record" is sufficient to dispel the concern that they might be real (if for no other reason than that they don't ask for nearly enough information to uniquely identify a person), but many viewers are hesitant to try for fear that the information they enter will be collected by someone who might use it for illegitimate (or even illegal) purposes. To this dilemma we offer a handy solution: You can lie to a computer!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Now+you+can+see+anyone%27s+Driver%27s+License+on+the+Internet&btnG=Google+Search
LOL You got me!!!!
Isn't that Allen Greenspan?
Good call!
now I'm off to bed; perchance to dream of Mr. Greenspan (geeeze, I hope not!)
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