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WARNING!!! You All Need to Go Opt Out of This Place!
« on: January 13, 2017, 02:59:07 PM »
This place is scary. It's allowing people to retrieve a lot of info on someone WITHOUT paying like most sites require. In the past, the cost is what's kept a lot of people from finding out so much about people. With this place, it's no longer so prohibitive. Just Creepy.



"Early Tuesday morning, Anna Brittain got a text from her sister: Did she know about Familytreenow.com? The relatively unknown site, which presents itself as a free genealogy resource, seemed to know an awful lot about her.

“The site listed my 3- and 5-year-olds as ‘possible associates,’ ” Brittain, a 30-year-old young-adult fiction writer in Birmingham, Ala., told The Washington Post on Tuesday. Her sister, a social worker who works at a child advocacy center, found the site while doing a regular Internet footprint checkup on herself. “Given the danger level of my sister’s occupation,” Brittain added, the depth of information available on the genealogy site “scared me to death.”

There are many “people search” sites and data brokers out there, like Spokeo, or Intelius, that also know a lot about you. This is not news, at least for the Internet-literate. And the information on FamilyTreeNow comes largely from the public records and other legally accessible sources that those other data brokers use. What makes FamilyTreeNow stand out on the creepy scale, though, is how easy the site makes it for anyone to access that information all at once, and free."


More At: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/01/12/youve-probably-never-heard-of-this-creepy-genealogy-site-but-its-heard-all-about-you/?utm_term=.bc8b8f0ccdda


Edit: I forgot. I'm serious about this. This &$@%* place had my oldest son's in-laws listed as acquaintances of mine! That's how awful it is!
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Re: WARNING!!! You All Need to Go Opt Out of This Place!
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 03:46:50 PM »
What do you mean by "opt out?" how is it done?

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Re: WARNING!!! You All Need to Go Opt Out of This Place!
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2017, 03:49:50 PM »
What do you mean by "opt out?" how is it done?

Go to the link in this paragraph:

"If you’d like to opt out, by the way, go here and follow the steps. Some of my colleagues had trouble getting their opt-out requests to go through the first time; and it seems there’s a cap on how many records you can opt out in a single day. Others had trouble trying to get an opt-out to work on mobile and had to switch to desktop. The site said those listings will go away within 48 hours."
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." Edward Hoagland
"Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog."

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