New Google feature raises privacy concerns

[XMan]

New Google feature raises privacy converns

I searched for this but did not see anything.

 

[yoda291]

that's so cool

 

[Eli]

Interesting.

:Q

It works.

I am officially frightened. 😛

 

[FoBoT]

wow , it worked, my phone number popped me right up

but my number is public/published in the phone book, so how is this different?

 

[XMan]

Apparently my phone number used to belong to a flower shop, so the info that comes up is bogus. It's still somewhat weird - especially since it may work for unlisted numbers?

 

[Brutuskend]

Let me be the first to say (But not the last I'm sure) REPOST. 😉

 

[Syringer]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Let me be the first to say (But not the last I'm sure) REPOST. 😉

 

[Atlantean]

Hey I am not on there!!

 

[notfred]

That feature rocks 🙂

 

[Eli]

I don't really think its a big deal... The driving directions are a little unnerving, cause that doesen't come with normal phonebook listing, lol.. but it's no big deal, unless you tell all your enemies your personal information.

 

[Looney]

Didn't work for me. Too bad, i would have liked mine to be listed. How is this any different than somebody using the phonebook and a map? Except to save some convenience.

 

[Grey]

It didnt work for me, long live Cell phones! No telemarketers and free long distance why be tied to a land line ever again ?!

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Grey
It didnt work for me, long live Cell phones! No telemarketers and free long distance why be tied to a land line ever again ?!

I would assume it wouldn't work for cell phones, yeah.

 

[VBboy]

How is this different from the Yellow pages (.com) ?

 

[RossMAN]

Didn't work for me, tried all 3 of my numbers.

You go to Google.com and type in your 10 digit phone number with no spaces or dashes, right?

Nothing.

 

[iamwiz82]

that has worked for at least a year now. I dont know what the big fuss is all of a sudden

 

[ScrapSilicon]

heh..

 

[Armitage]

reverse phonebooks have been available on the internet for awhile.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

whitepages.com has been doing this for MUCH MUCh longer. who cares.

 

[Psycho18]

thats sweet.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Let me be the first to say (But not the last I'm sure) REPOST. 😉

Where? Nothing came up when I searched for "Google" or "privacy." If they didn't name their thread well that's sure not my fault.

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
that has worked for at least a year now. I dont know what the big fuss is all of a sudden

 

[ElFenix]

doesn't work for me

 

Anyone with 1/3000th of a brain can pull up public records.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Didn't work for me, tried all 3 of my numbers.

You go to Google.com and type in your 10 digit phone number with no spaces or dashes, right?

Nothing.

(XXX)XXX-XXXX

That the format you were trying? Because this format found my house.