Thread: Oh dear - confession? (totally off topic)

Originally Posted by mummy84

thats pretty horrifying how the hell is all that information available on the net.

Well there would have been even more if I had been prepared to pay for it! For instance, there is a website called 192.com which has electoral roll information available for a fee.

If you apply for planning permission from your local council for anything, all the details will be on the council's website for anyone to see. Previously you could have seen it if you went into the council offices you could see the paperwork but now all councils put it online. Floorplans, application forms, photographs - it's amazing what is there.

Also, if you have a nice house to sell, anyone can see photographs of all your rooms and a floorplan to compare with the photographs, on the estate agent's website. It's a burglar's handbook! (Oh look, they have a nice painting on the wall above the fireplace in the sitting room, and here is a floor plan to show you exactly where the sitting room is, and the quickest way to get to it from the back door!)

The search I did was made easier by the fact that the person concerned has an unusual surname - trying to find something about John Smith would take a bit longer as you would have to filter through lots of irrelevant stuff.

I have an unusual name (not AnnaFaraday!) and I just googled myself - loads of stuff there. If the ex was trying to contact me (not very likely) he would have no problem.

When I realised how much information I had acquired, I felt a bit guilty to be honest, although I hadn't done anything wrong!

I think it's well out of order and unneccessary. I "pretended" to be a burglar on Google and searched my Nan's address. Found out my Nan's name, that she's 94 and lives on her own. I obviously already knew this but Mr Robber could have a field day. Why would that information be needed for public knowledge?!

I remember a presentation that I saw about child exploitation online. The trainer demonstrated how within 20 minutes they'd found out all of the details of a child's life; address, school, friends, recent deaths in the family, hobbies and then could set up a fake identity and use all of this information to say they had a mutual friend with this child and get talking. It was the scariest thing I've ever seen!

Apparently I've been to Zambia? Hope I had a good time when I was there, must have been wasted the whole time as I remember nothing!!

Originally Posted by gettingfitat50

I just put my name into google.


The family of **** ****** would like to thank everyone for their support and the many cards and messages received.

LOL must have been a shock to read you'd departed this earth! Never mind, perhaps you are a long lost relative in line for a windfall...

I am a Hawaiian Professor amongst other things

I have an uncommon name and just googled myself, with the usual facebook/twitter links came a link to the oklahoma department of corrections where my fellow Shelley has served 11 years for "engaging in prostitution, use of a computer to commit crime and possesion of a controlled substance" - thankfully I look nothing like the mugshot!!! x

Originally Posted by charlies_mummy

I have an uncommon name and just googled myself, with the usual facebook/twitter links came a link to the oklahoma department of corrections where my fellow Shelley has served 11 years for "engaging in prostitution, use of a computer to commit crime and possesion of a controlled substance" - thankfully I look nothing like the mugshot!!! x

the plastic surgeon worked then?!