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Titled: Should You Worry About Reverse Cell Phone Lookup?
Should You Worry About Reverse Cell Phone Lookup?
Article Summary: With the new addition to Google services anyone with a little skill can now learn your name and adress. Learn how to protect yourself from reverse cell phone lookup abuse.
Lately a new Google service called Google Phonebook has started plenty of debates about individual information safety. Essentially, what this service provides is a way to do a free reverse cell phone lookup on any cell phone number you wish.
So should you be worried about reverse cell phone lookup?
Well what this service does is it provides not only the name of the cell phone user but also hers or his address. In addition, if someone wants to take it even further, it can be used in conjunction with Google, Yahoo or Map Quest maps and get step by step guide right to your front door.
Thankfully your e-mail address is not included, or you could without even realizing it become a victim of identity theft or maybe even worse.
Nevertheless, fortunately for us, Google has enabled us with a way to defend our privacy from malevolent reverse cell phone lookup users and have an option to have your information removed. All you need to do is just fill a simple online form or send a regular mail.
You can go online here: google.com/help/pbremoval.html or just send a letter to Google at: Google Phonebook Removal, 2400 Bayshore Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.
Other services however, do not provide you with such an easy option to protect yourself from reverse cell phone lookup. Why is that? Well the reason is believe it or not ;) money. There is a lot of money to be made in selling information, especially personal information.
Since recently the market has seen an enormous number of such services emerge I will avoid even trying to list them all.
How can you protect yourself from reverse cell phone lookup?
Prevention is the key here, just avoid providing your private information except if it is really essential. Particularly avoid filling up web based forms with some type of rewards in return for your address, phone number or name. 99% of the times, the risk is just too high.
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besides that, in case that you already have trouble caused by reverse cell phone lookup, what you must do is have all your phone numbers changed (regular and cell)), and make sure to demand that with any service you use your private information remains unlisted.
If you run in to service that rejects to do it threat them with a lawsuit, and really consult your lawyer about it. Who knows maybe you can even turn the table and make some money on it.
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Nikola Govorko
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