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0	Privacy Blocker app for Android spoofs your personal data Brook Jordan sends word of a fascinating Android app called Privacy Blocker: Basically what the app does is scans all the applications you have... Source: boingboing.net Date: Mar 25, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Etsy's privacy Valdez: opt-out policy exposes users' real names and purchase histories A recent, unannounced change to Etsy's privacy policy has created an avalanche of embarrassing disclosures for Etsy shoppers. Etsy hoped to make its... Source: boingboing.net Date: Mar 15, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	There’s Absolutely Nothing You Can Do About Spokeo, So Stop Whining There's been a surge of messages to us asking us to please write about and expose Spokeo, a company that collects and then sells your personal... Source: techcrunch.com Date: Jan 13, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spokeo, personal data aggregators, and your privacy rights: Xeni on The Madeleine Brand Show [Direct MP3 link for audio] This morning, I joined the Madeleine Brand Show to talk about the latest personal data privacy aggregator that has many of... Source: boingboing.net Date: Jan 3, 2011 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spokeo may know more about you than you realize is a new site that claims to not be your "grandma's phonebook." This is because it pulls a ton of info about you from all over the web into one place.... Source: boingboing.net Date: Dec 31, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Class Action: Internet Search Engine, Spokeo, Publishes False Information About Millions of Americans LOS ANGELES, July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action lawsuit filed today takes Spokeo.com to task for allegedly publishing false and misleading... Source: prnewswire.com Date: Jul 20, 2010 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Sites Used at San Diego Venture Group Speech These are the sites and applications that I used in today’s San Diego Venture Group speech about using social media as a marketing tool. Making... Source: guykawasaki.com Date: Jun 25, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Website Down this Morning Spokeo.com was down from 1:30am to approximately 7:00am this Saturday morning because our colocation center experienced an unexpected power outage.... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: May 9, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Goodbye to Themes This morning, we officially ended our support for themes and skins. We first introduced the theme / personalization feature on August 27, 2007, and... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: May 4, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spokeo’s New People Search Interface in Works For the past year, we have been focusing on scaling and increasing Spokeo’s back-end performance. These technical improvements definitely don’t sound... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Apr 20, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	We just got on MSN! We just got on the MSN front page couple hours ago. As expected, hundred of thousands of people are flocking to Spokeo right now, and the incoming... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Mar 30, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spokeo is the 50th Most Searched Term Today, Spokeo ranks as the 50th most searched term in the world based on Google Trends statistics and salmonbones report. Below is the Top 50... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Mar 12, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Update on the Move Last Thursday afternoon, we made the biggest change in our infrastructure and moved all our servers to a new data center. After 12 hours of... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Jan 27, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Scheduled Downtime this Thursday, 1/22/2009 We are moving! We have outgrown our current data center, so we are moving our servers to a new location on Thursday, 1/22/2009. Spokeo.com will be... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Jan 19, 2009 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Merry Christmas! Want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! - Spokeo Team. Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Dec 25, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Paypal Payment Processor Issues As you might have noticed, we use Paypal for our payment processor. What does this mean? It means that Paypal handles all our transactions and... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Nov 9, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
2	People Search Site 123people Goes International 123people is a people search engine that has been in private beta since February of this year. Originally covering only Europe, the company is... Source: mashable.com Date: Oct 24, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Vlogger Insomniacs to Battle for Most Sleeplessness. Again. There are only a select number of instances when I consider it appealing to watch live video over the Web, such as news streams from sources like CNN... Source: mashable.com Date: Oct 19, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Ad Model vs. Premium Model As most of you would agree, the Web 2.0 era is long over. Web 2.0 was categorized by ad-based business models. Everything has to be free, and... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Oct 6, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0
0	Spokeo is down due to data center’s power outage Spokeo has been down since 4am PST this morning due to the power outage at our data center. This power outage has affected many sites, and our data... Source: spokeo.com (Company Blog) Date: Sep 23, 2008 Submitted by: VentureBeat Profiles Comments: 0