Online Privacy
I was a little taken aback yesterday when I was bored in a meeting and pulled up Sherlock (fantastic OSX Web Services Information tool). I typed my name in to the Phonebook applet (power by Switchboard) and it immediately pulled up not only my phone number but also my address. Eeek! Now, I’m usually the first to say, “well, that information is available in many places, online access just makes it easier to find,” but I’m also the first to tell the phone company to withhold such information from the general public (and I thought I had). What I think happened is when we moved last year, they reset our preferences to hide our address in the phone book, and so it got published and pushed out there. Yeah, this does kind of suck, I’ll stop telling people to stop whining.
So, anyone know of a good way to scrub your information when it’s already escaped like this?
