Huge Privacy Risk

[Mike337]

Morning All,

 

I thought I would throw this out there in case you have not seen it. Zaba Search holds a large amount of personal information about people on the web and it can be accessed by anyone. Try a seach for yourself and see what comes up. ZabaSearch.com

 

Below are the instructions from Zaba how to remove yourself from their files. In order to create, edit, delete your record and/or to add a ZabaLink, all for free, you must make that request in writing and mail it to: ZabaTools, PO Box 45210 Omaha, NE 68145. Receiving requests by mail allows us to verify and process requests quickly. Records created, edited and ZabaLinks added may take up to several weeks to appear in ZabaSearch.

 

Records requested to be deleted are typically processed the next business day after receiving the request. You will be notified by e-mail when you request enters our system and then once more when the requested records have been adjusted. Please specify if you want to create, edit, delete a record and/or add a free ZabaLink, e-mail address or url to your record. If you add a free ZabaLink, please include the e-mail address where you would like messages blindly forwarded to from your ZabaLink. In order to fill your request your letter must contain the following information to insure we create, edit or delete the correct records. After you confirm by e-mail that we processed your request, your letter and the information you provided in it will be shredded. You will have created a record for yourself just as you like it and will be eventually given online tools to adjust your information as you like live in ZabaSearch 24/7.

 

1. E-mail address

 

2. Full name including middle initial

 

3. Address of the record you wish to create, edit or delete

 

4. Phone number you wish to have removed

 

5. Year of birth.

 

6. Specify if you are requesting to create, edit or delete a record or if you want to add a ZabaLink or URL to your record.

 

7. Sign and date your request

 

Mike

[Harleynot]

OK, I'm a bit slow this morning..

 

so what your are saying is.....give them all your private info....so they can then delete it?

 

err..sell it to someone else...I must be missing something.

[Mike337]

OK, I'm a bit slow this morning..

 

so what your are saying is.....give them all your private info....so they can then delete it?

 

err..sell it to someone else...I must be missing something.

If you have seen the ads for LifeLock this is the stuff they delete. Zaba lawfully collects, maintains and sells the data, however, by law, if you request the information be removed they comply. There's no scam to it, see if you are on the site, see what information they already have, if they already have it on the site you also have nothing to loose. This is where you get a lot of your junk mail from, credit card offers ect. What they do with the info you give them is put it in the computer and delete the matches.

 

 

 

Mike

[Vintage229]

I thought I was doing good when I didn't see any hits on my name but then I did a search on my old address in Germantown MD and there I was. It doesn't so very much but just info I guess for someone if they wanted to subscribe to the service and check-up on me. There's about a half a dozen of these sites and I dont' think anyone will ever be able to keep themselves completely under the radar.