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How To Keep Yourself Safe In A World Of Creepy Websites Filled With Personal Data

... the names of your parents and relatives, your personal information is sitting on a number of websites, for anyone to peruse and misuse. But there's a way to stop it. SEE ALSO: Study: Hackers can get your credit card info in 6 seconds just by guessing it. Genealogy websites like Family Tree Now and people-search sites like Spokeo all publish this sort of info by pulling it from public records. Some of them make this material even easier to access than others. For instance, Family Tree Now is free and you don't even need to sign up. This means basically anyone with internet access can very easily get hold of your personal info — all they need to do is fill in the name and city. Even information like the names of co-workers and addresses dating back over 50 years can be found. But it's not all bad. In many cases, you can go to the sites directly and remove your information. On Tuesday, writer Anna Britain tweeted a warning message that's since gone viral, offering a quick and easy way to get your ...

Warning Issued About Website Offering Family Information For Free

... few key strokes and quick click your name, age, and all your previous addresses can pop up for anyone to see. Newschannel 3’s Lourin Sprenger searched her name and it brought up information for her family, even extended family, dozens of names in all. “Really naïve of anyone to think that we can hide anymore or live in anonymity,” said Chief Jeff Hadley, Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety. The site, Family Tree Now is designed to “trace your history back hundreds of years,” putting you in touch with your own genealogy, but some say it’s putting others in touch with a whole lot of personal information. “There’s just a whole lot of our information out in the world and we don’t know where it landed,” said Chief Hadley. “Something we need to have in our consciousness and be aware of.”. A warning was issued on social media for police officers, encouraging them to opt out of the information to protect themselves and their families. Chief Hadley says our information is often legally sold without us knowing, and as technology advances, we’ll be able to get more, more ...

Parrow Joins Av Family Tree

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Star Wars Gibbon' Is Discovered, Expanding Our Family Tree

... hairs per inch than humans do. The thick coat helps to keep their skin dry in moist rainforest habitats, but is another impediment to swimming, Stith explained. Researchers in Asia have struck species gold of late by exploring remote rivers. Kai He, for example, said that a recently discovered species of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, Rhinopithecus strykeri, was found to be isolated from its sister species, Rhinopithecus bieti, by the Salween River. "Rivers in southwestern China and northern Myanmar have played an important role in shaping speciations, not only in primates, but also other terrestrial species," he said. RELATED: Star Wars Sarlacc's Mouth Found on Prehistoric Worm. It remains to be seen how our own species might have been shaped by barriers like large rivers, particularly early in human evolution when our ancestors had more body hair and were better adapted to life in the trees. Gibbons are not too far down on the human family tree either, given that they are closely related to chimpanzees, gorillas ...

A Dive Into Birmingham's Greek Restaurant Family Tree

... restaurant franchises Jinsei, Maki Fresh, and Miss Dot's. Even in restaurants serving sushi and Southern fried chicken, Greeks continue to feed generations of diners. DOG DAYS. Greek influence also lives on in Birmingham's legendary hot dog scene. In 1919, Tom Kandilas opened what is believed to be the city's first Greek-owned hot dog stand, Tom's Coneys, and created the hot-beef sauce that still defines. Birmingham dogs. Harry Pasisis eventually took over the stand and married the founder's granddaughter, Tasia. Their son, Gus, also minded the tiny downtown shop before starting a marketing career in the 1980 s. The stories behind Birmingham's Greek hot dog stands sometimes are as colorful as the owners. In 1939, Pete Koutroulakis used winnings from a Pinochle card game to buy into a restaurant. Taking full ownership in 1946, he named it Pete's Famous Hot Dogs and erected a neon sign, now preserved at Barber Motorsports. A nephew, Constantine "Gus" Koutroulakis, took over Pete's Famous in 1948, building a reputation for being gruff but attentive to regulars. He worked there until the day he died at age ...

Chances Are 'creepy' Family Tree Site Has Your Information

... PM, Jan 12, 2017. FARGO, N. D. (Valley News Live) - Chances are your personal information is listed on a website that anyone can access, and a lot of people are calling it creepy. __link__ is a free genealogy website used by those who want to track ancestors. However, the website knows a lot about you, even if you have never logged on to it. That's making a lot of people uncomfortable. Right on the homepage it is advertised that they have billions of historical records, records of birth, marriage, divorce, military, and living. We asked 19 year old Ruby Holm, who had never heard of the website before to log on to it. "It has my current address which is kinda scary," she says. "It's definitely creepy especially if someone you don't want to know is looking you up.". Holm found herself, many of her family members, and other information she doesn’t want to be public. "The thing that worries me the most is the current ...

Does Familytreenow Display Sensitive Personal Information

... was in the search, and some of my family was connected to the profile. The amount of info and the accuracy of it is terrifying. Opt out instructions below. The web site in question,  Family Tree __link__ , allows users to look up a person by first and last name. The site then pulls up information about the named person obtained from public records, such as age, month and year of birth, immediate family members and "associates," and past and current addresses. The searches are provided free of charge. The site does not specifically categorize members of law enforcement, but of course any user who knew enough about a particular police officer (such as name and hometown) could potentially retrieve more information about that person. Persons whose information appears on the web site can use the "opt out" to block their information from being displayed to users, and our tests so far indicate that that option does work. However, as we have noted about similar search services in the past, your personal information will still be available through the underlying public record sources used by Family Tree Now (and others). Those third-party records will still ...

Family Tree Website Causing Concern For Privacy

... up a list of all your family members and your current and previous addresses. And as you can imagine this is unsettling to a lot of people. It's a scary thought to think anyone with internet can access personal information about you, but that's the reality. With just a quick search at __link__ , you can find your address, your relatives and their addresses. "That website is not doing anything unusual at all. In fact, it's become the norm," says Life Lock Director of Security Communications Joe Gervais. "There are any number of websites out there, any number of service providers where you can search public records easily.one stop shopping.". These types of sites concerning, considering the number of identity thieves and other criminals. "It seems that everything they find is public record that has been found somewhere on the internet," says APD Officer Jeb Hilton. "They've got people that go through and search and gather information and they put it all together in one spot.". Newschannel 10 hit a few Amarillo hangouts to have people test out the website on their own, and their reactions speak volumes. To one young ...

You've Probably Never Heard Of This Creepy Genealogy Site, But It Knows A Lot About You

... though, is how easy the site makes it for anyone to access that information all at once, and for free. Profiles on Family Tree Now include the age, birth month, family members, addresses and phone numbers for individuals in their system, if they have them. It also guesses at their "possible associates," all on a publicly accessible, permalink-able page. It's possible to opt out , but it's not clear whether doing so actually removes you from their records or (more likely) simply hides your record so it's no longer accessible to the public. Unusually for a site like this, Family Tree Now doesn't require a fee, or even the creation of an account, to access those detailed profiles (assuming, of course, that person hasn't already opted out). Lexis Nexis, for instance, can also aggregate tons of public records to create an in-depth profile of a person. But that service is cost-prohibitive to most people who don't have access to the site through an institutional subscription. Sure, a free database aggregating thousands of U. S. ...