A free genealogy website called Family Tree Now is revealing a startling amount of your personal information online, so how can you protect yourself? It's interesting stuff, have you seen this site where it is disguised? As a genealogy site may be just that, but it is a public data mining of every little bit of your personal information is now available for anybody to see.
There's a homepage and what you need to do is put in your first name, right now you can put in your city, I didn't and it still got right to me. You click the details of who you are and suddenly it reveals your current address, it mailed every private address I have had for decades including the addressee apartment back when I was in college, pretty has all of that there.
They have found that information to giving for everybody done it when we read about writers, call it has all our associations, that have every one of my family members. It has my late grandmother's name there, it shows that she'd be a hundred ten years old that was kind of cool, except I didn't want anyone to know my grandma's address, I don't want anybody digging into my family unless I let them to.
Imagine you're a police officer and you have a vendetta against you, you're just now opening yourself up, if it's so, go right now, here's what you need to do. You need to write this one down this morning, here's how/when you opt out go to familytreenow.com, and at the bottom of the page search for yourself, you'll see privacy at the bottom of the page. Click privacy search for yourself, in the boxes, you'll just put in your name, your birth, and the city you're in, and then match yourself. You'll see a red opt-out box, click that and they claim within 48 hours, you'll be gone.
Does it work? It does work because yesterday I was with the bruisers looking at this site, and it's crazy, I mean that every address I've ever lived out my current address. I said how can I get out of this, I opted out and I just checked it this morning, and I'm not in the bottom line is going yes, you opt out of this website, but that information is still public.
How do we get there, that was in question a few ways, one hour, property records, tax information, public records that are already out there. Those are bought and sold by the minute online in the world. Secondly, we sign up for things like grocery discounts, and when you do that the fine print often includes "hey, you won't accept other offers and allow us to share your information with our partners and you go ahead." I'd like to save more money shirt well, then BAM.
There's another moment it happens again and again, and then you have apps that say "hey, we'll help you identify who's calling you, a true call is coming under great criticism for this." But really they're digging through all of your phone books and providing that to them, and you don't even know that you're doing that. You're right, you're doing a good thing, so the bottom line is our information is out there.
The best we can do is rain in what we can write in, so area we modify them, by the way, I would slap if you have a big, what's your beef with your personal details online, what really bugs you if you've got a Facebook search cyber guy, you'll see you there also Fox and Friends website for helpful.
