Spokeo.com and your privacy

[Ed W]

Spokeo is a new database site that contains a surprising amount of personal information.  It returned a wildly optimistic figure for my personal income, but other than that, everything was pretty accurate. 

To remove yourself from the database, do a search for your name.  Then copy the resulting URL into the privacy page (the link is at the bottom of the search page) and give it a valid email address for confirmation.  I'd strongly recommend using a throwaway email address or a spam trap rather than your regular, private email address.  They send a confirmation and you'll have to click on it.  Also, Spokeo limits the number of deletions per email address.  I was able to delete two, but not a third.

http://www.spokeo.com/name?g=name_gs_spokeo01&gclid=CI23taiUnKYCFQ687Qod6kXZag

[RecycleMichael]

They are not that new. They have been around more than four years.

I go there about every six months and check out my family, co-workers and others. The data is sometimes right on, other times completely inaccurate.

[BKDotCom]

And you're not really removing yourself from any database(s)...
all you're doing is adding yourself to Spokeo's don't-show database.
The info is all coming from 3rd party public info.