Spokeo does come also a search engine works in a similar way.
Let's type in David this time Spokeo Dotcom's mechanisms are similar to those implemented in KGB people
dot com.
It's a free Internet service which checks social networking sites and traditional search engines for
submitted criteria such as first and last names and email addresses.
The site returns geographical locations connected to the person records of their media appearances and
the pictures and videos they've uploaded.
We've talked about I can stalk you before
after year of running the service had been closed.
Now this is what the site looks like.
It's still worth visiting though.
For example to read up on how to disable geotagging on your smartphone
in the year that the site was up millions of people had been located using I can stock you.
There are also a lot of services that make money out of invading your privacy
services like read notify dot com or my life dot com intrude on your privacy by breaching the confidentiality
of your emails and discussions you hold.
Let's see how they work.
Let's start with my life dotcom.
You can only access the service fully after you've registered.
After submitting a first and last name a long list of found people is displayed.
The list features pictures ages and locations.
You can even contact people via email a full profile on records on the selected person will be available
after paying a monthly fee.
As you can see it's a hard job maintaining your privacy on the Internet.
Well tago is the last of the services I'd like you to know about
rediscuss search engines to make you realize how much of people's personal information is out there
on the Internet.
Now let's see how these personal records can be exploited while Tigo is a tool for exploring data.
I suppose you could call it a data mining to use the noncommercial version 3 or 4 of the application
let's say we're interested in the intill dot com domain we'd like to find out if this business address
has been given in social networking services.
Tigo and any starting point can be transformed to find a range of information on a given object.
One of the options available in the tool is to search for email addresses running this option brings
up initial results.
Assume you like to get in touch with someone who works for company X calling the company won't do much
good since giving out employees e-mail addresses is against privacy policy
by submitting a company's domain name as a question and not to go.
You can learn the e-mail address is used by the company's employees and found out it can be the starting
point of another action.
If the starting point is the name of a person you can run actions to find their address.
People that e-mail or their myspace account
before we move on to cyber criminals.
I'd like to mention another aspect of social media security.
There's a tool called Facebook Blaster pro.
It's a commercial software used for sending spam it targets fans of celebrities and other famous people.
As you know celebrities have fan pages on Facebook.
The Justin Bieber fan page for example has more fans on Facebook than there are people in Norway and
Ireland put together.
How can you send e-mails to this many people.
Mine uninstall Facebook Blaster Pro.
The people you want to send spam to don't have to be your Facebook friends.
It's enough that you like the same fan page.
Facebook Blaster pro will extract the email addresses of all fans and send them to you as you can see
the program is advertised as a great marketing tool that can boost sales.
It claims that it's the perfect tool for telling a broad audience that you've written a book.