chris_1001
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I was listed in this data base... There is a way to remove it, which I WILL be doing...
I was listed in this data base... There is a way to remove it, which I WILL be doing...
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We are all in a shitload of data bases. I've lived 76 yrs without a cell phone, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, I pad, I phone and whatever. The wife has a cell phone which I borrow when I go somewhere and want to contact her. It is only turned on to make calls. Don't even know what the number is. We do have caller I.D. at home to help avoid the telemarketers. Damn, the 50's were good times. Jack.
Most times cell numbers show as town only, this had my name... Granted it's a reverse search, but if your name is up, how long before it ends up in Google etc?
Give out your cell # to a doctor/insurance company/store/etc. and you WILL get publicly listed even if you have an "unlisted number"! They all create and sell databases and everything you give them is free for them to use and sell.
Your name was listed, or the phone number and the wireless provider was listed? If it was the latter, it's not exactly groundbreaking news. Cell phone companies buy up all the numbers in any given exchange, so once you know 1 number, you know that every number with that exchange is on that carrier. It's gotten a little more complicated with people transfering their numbers between carriers though.
I entered my number, all it said was that I use Verizon and it estimated I lived in Leominster, MA (which is where I bought my cell phone). No biggie.
I'm trying to figure out what the big deal is. All it shows for my cells is who the provider is and what town its out of, and that information has been available basically forever.
"Removing yourself" from one of these is an exercise in head banging, too, BTW. Kinda pointless.
-Mike
We are all in a shitload of data bases. I've lived 76 yrs without a cell phone, blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, I pad, I phone and whatever. The wife has a cell phone which I borrow when I go somewhere and want to contact her. It is only turned on to make calls. Don't even know what the number is. We do have caller I.D. at home to help avoid the telemarketers. Damn, the 50's were good times. Jack.
Give out your cell # to a doctor/insurance company/store/etc. and you WILL get publicly listed even if you have an "unlisted number"! They all create and sell databases and everything you give them is free for them to use and sell.
I bet they track the IP address of people and the associate it with the numbers you look up.
Look up 20 numbers and they won't know it's you.
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I was listed in this data base... There is a way to remove it, which I WILL be doing...