Posted on 05/26/2020 8:50:35 AM PDT by rktman
It was MyLife that broke me. After spending hours studying FAQ pages, sending terse emails and making occasional phone calls in an earnest-if-naive attempt to take back some control of my personal information online, I had my first demoralizing moment. MyLife pulls together vast amounts of public data to create background reports and "reputation scores" on millions of people in the US, all available to those willing to pay for a monthly membership. On it, I found a sometimes inaccurate but eerie amount of personal information about, well, my life: my birthday and home city; my previous job title (though curiously not my current one); a list of people "Seth maintains relationships with," including the names of both my parents, each linked to their own profile pages with still more data. All there in one place waiting to be discovered. When I called the site, a customer service representative stressed that the information doesn't come from MyLife, but rather from across the "interwebs." Following some back and forth, the representative agreed to delete my profile page. I felt victorious -- until two hours later when I received the first of many promotional emails from the company, one encouraging me to sign up for a membership, another talking about raising my credit score.
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Facebook is just as bad or worse. Once you join it, you can never completely rid yourself of it.
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They take voting records and make them available. You can find out anyone’s party, address, and telephone. They show a list of people who are associated with you. They take this from public information. They have present and former addresses. Accuracy doesn’t matter. There is a lot of false information. It’s all there, and there is nothing we can do about it. Staying off the internet won’t help.
I don’t like the radio ads that talk about protecting your home’s title .
They talk about how scammer forge your name and then “legally own your home” and borrow against it.
Nope they don’t legally own it. They forged documents to illegally take it and the load companies didn’t do due diligence to confirm that they were communicating with the legal owner.
We’re in a post privacy world. Have been for about a quarter of a century. Get used to it already.
I get texts for some Democrat woman in my state. Repeatedly. I’ve had this phone number for nearly 25 years. Only have had a cellphone for the past 5.
Multiple get out the vote efforts try to get “Karen” to the polls for Democrats.
I just googled my FR name and sent me to my FR about page which has no info save the date I stopped lurking around and signed in - almost 21 years ago. There was nothing else.
Liar!
You have stolen my identity!
I am the TRUE StuckInCali!
Anyway, I’m truly stuck in Cali...
At least 6 more years until possible parole...
I’m sure they know where to find me.
Just have to be willing to pay the price.
Yes to all three. And I have annuities which I love because there no limit on how much I can put in, compared to IRA’s which have limits, and 100% tax deferred until I take money out of them.
But that has nothing to do with what I post on internet. They know every detail of my life. You wanna hear a shocking thing? I had sold a certain stock 30 years ago when I lived in Illinois. I have changed residences many times since then including residence changes to CA, WA & now FL. Then I get a notice of a class action law suit against that company mailed to my Florida address!!!!
Like I said, they ALREADY know everything.
Similar happenings here. Info from my daughter's history and residences has been mixed up with mine.
Found a site somewhere that showed I have lived in four different places in 40 years. I haven't moved, the other three were places my daughter lived for a while.
I know a sure fire way how to stop having your identity stolen. If you do not need loans in future, become delinquent on paying anything on time. That will deteriorate your credit score so low, no one will want to steal your identity.
Good points.
I am retired with nothing to do. A re-education camp might be good entertainment so long they provide free coffee and donuts. They did that when I served on a jury pool in DuPage county, Illinois. And they had TV and cards to entertain yourself while waiting to be called for selection on jury.
Good luck.
I am not particularly worried about that particular scam. My last name from India is so long and hard to pronounce, no one has been able to spell it correctly.
When I get those phone calls from democrats, I ask them to send me a $20 bill in the mail, and then never hear from them again.
Why do I need good luck? Will the gov’t stop paying my social security if I am a registered republican?
perhaps we’re related. I am from the appalachian stuckins
Our kids are all her and now we have a great grand kid. not going anywhere. Consolation: ocean breeze.
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