Google Privacy Telephone Numbers Concerns Many
There have been many articles written about the myriad of privacy issues surrounding Google and their policies. I haven’t had any serious issues with Google’s privacy policies until last week when my son typed our phone number into Google and not only did my name come up, but also a map to my house! This is a big problem!
I think it is imperative that everybody knows just how much information about you can be found through Google. Also make sure that your kids know NOT to ever give out their phone number to anybody over the Internet especially through chat rooms.
Why You Should Never Give Out Your Phone Number Over the Internet
If you do a search for my old phone number 727-856-4695 the results come up as follows:
By clicking on the map, anybody can drive right over to my house! This is a huge security problem since a sex offender or other type of weirdo can easily find where my kids live if they have our phone number. I strongly urge you to get the message across to your kids to not give out their phone number online. I am making all our phone numbers private!
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People definitely need to be made more aware of how insecure information on the Internet is. Drawing people a map to your door and making it public is just going too far.
Well, thats the reason why one should be aware where and what type of informations is he/she publishing.
But in either case knowing that you are not secure its just too much.
I think your post is invaluable for each one of us internet marketers, since we could inadverdently land up in a serious situation, thanks to our casual approach towards our contact details info on the internet. thanks very much.
OMG, this is enlightening… I never thought to check this… Surprise! This has gone too far… I know that Google have had problems before with the maps and some objectives with security issues,I never thought that my own location could be so… public…