It cannot be denied that people today need to connect to the internet for different reasons. With this, they cannot escape from the demand of sharing some of their personal information online. Sites such as those for social networking or “buy and sell” allow usage only when users give a valid email address. Many users consider it a “normal” thing to share information and they forget about privacy.
There have been countless debates regarding privacy issues in the internet. Questions have been raised about some websites that gather user information from different sources. Today, some websites can tell much about a person, given only his or her name and an internet connection. They can generate other information about a person out of those that he or she shared online.
However, there are sites that have honest motives for doing this kind of job. There are those that want to help improve the online experience of users. Spokeo is an example of a website that does this. It gathers addresses, pictures of people’s homes, marital status, hobbies, and others. It then maintains a database of this information that users can access upon request.
Many other websites are into this type of business – legitimate and honest at that. To make their services available, at first they search public records, phone books, and other sources of personal information. Others find social networking sites as good sources too. Additional sources would be those sites that require users to give their email address for a certain deal.
As a service company, Spokeo is in line with creating a more efficient and user-friendly people-search engine. Its objective is to make it easy for people to locate information, especially their friends. It is committed to uphold user privacy and maintain transparency. Furthermore it assures its users that it neither gathers nor possesses private information. The backbone of its database is the collection of user information that is publicly available.
Being true to its commitment, Spokeo is gaining a reputation as an efficient and user-friendly website. Its users find it useful in locating old friends and long-lost family members, manage their online reputation, and organize their contacts’ profiles. There are two modes of subscription - users can choose between free and paid. A subscriber can get more information about a person with a paid subscription. Another thing that is good about the website is that it allows users to remove their information from the site. This generally is not offered by many other similar companies.
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