fifth of android apps expose private data

madoc · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2010, 10:11 AM

It is probably more than a fifth - and it is not in any way just a google thing.

Net anonymity is waning - privacy really is going/gone, and there's not really a way to get it back.

Go search your own name on a site like Spokeo.com. They have some incorrect info, but you may be surprised about how much of your life is already known and available to anyone. The younger you are, the less info they will have - but once you start integrating into society (loans, homes, credit cards), you are "out there".

YnYng · #2 (**permalink**) 06-24-2010, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by madoc

It is probably more than a fifth - and it is not in any way just a google thing.

Net anonymity is waning - privacy really is going/gone, and there's not really a way to get it back.

Go search your own name on a site like Spokeo.com. They have some incorrect info, but you may be surprised about how much of your life is already known and available to anyone. The younger you are, the less info they will have - but once you start integrating into society (loans, homes, credit cards), you are "out there".

now that is definitely creepy...

**blazingwolf** · #3 (**permalink**) 06-24-2010, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by madoc

It is probably more than a fifth - and it is not in any way just a google thing.

Net anonymity is waning - privacy really is going/gone, and there's not really a way to get it back.

Go search your own name on a site like Spokeo.com. They have some incorrect info, but you may be surprised about how much of your life is already known and available to anyone. The younger you are, the less info they will have - but once you start integrating into society (loans, homes, credit cards), you are "out there".

Hmm, has a few piddly things right that you can get from any courthouse in the area you live but not much else. Heck, it says my wife is a male. ROFLMAO

**drewcam888** · #4 (**permalink**) 06-25-2010, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by madoc

Go search your own name on a site like Spokeo.com. They have some incorrect info, but you may be surprised about how much of your life is already known and available to anyone.

I love that I do not have much information on the web in my name. Spokeo and google find nothing on me besides my master thesis. Not everyone has lost all privacy.