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Posted by: fscpd910

Google.com has implemented a new feature by which you can type someone's telephone number into its search bar, hit enter, and then see the person's telephone number and address - along with a map to the person's house!

Everyone should be aware of this! When I entered our telephone
number,the telephone number, street address, and a map of where we lived came back in seconds. If a child, ANYONE, gives out his or her telephone number, someone can actually look it up on the Google site to find out where the person lives. The safety issues are obviously alarming.

To test whether your telephone number pull up this information on the
Google site, first go to www.google.com. In the rectangular search bar,
type in your full ten-digit telephone number - and hit enter. If your
telephone number is in Google's system, you will see on the next screen
under the heading "Phone Book Results" your telephone number, your
name, your address, and two map directory prompts (one is "Yahoo! Maps" and the other is "MapQuest"). All you then need to do is click on either of the two map directory sites and a layout of your where you live will appear.

You can have this information removed or blocked. When the above screen displays, click on your telephone number. The page that next appears will
show the same information, below which you will see the notation "If you
would like to have your Phone Book list removed, you can do so by using our Phone Book Removal Form." Click on the Phone Book Removal Form prompt and a form will be displayed. Fill out the form as indicated.

Removal takes 48 hours.

Quite scary.

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Posted by: stm4710

OH MY GOD..........IM IN THE PHONE BOOK!!!!!!!! The dickens you say!

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Posted by: Macop

My friggin mother is on there, I put a stop to that. Fuckin Google.

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Posted by: frapmpd24

Thats a nice feature for some stalker or pedophile. If they get the phone number they can pop it in google and there is a map to the house. A free map to go victimize.

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Posted by: Gil

This information has always been there, here are a bunch of sites that do the same thing.

http://www.masscops.com/search.shtml

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Posted by: Wolfman

The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me now.


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Posted by: billj

LOL

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Posted by: Southside

Holy Crap.....I got this big yellow book sent to my house and it has not only my name and address, but others in my town. I called my mom when this happened and she too got one with my dad's name, number and address along with the people in their town. I think it has begun, we have all been labeled.

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Posted by: DCON

That's why I pay the $2 a month to be unlisted.

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Posted by: Southside

Quote:

Originally Posted by DCON";p=&quot That's why I pay the $2 a month to be unlisted.

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Posted by: EOD1

yeah what gil said,
u can do the samething with a randmcnally and a phonebook

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Posted by: kttref

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Originally Posted by DCON";p=&quot That's why I pay the $2 a month to be unlisted.

That's why I pay $34.95 a month for Optimum Voice...all numbers are unlisted and unpublished!

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Posted by: reno911_2004

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Originally Posted by kttref";p=&quot Quote: Originally Posted by DCON";p=&quot That's why I pay the $2 a month to be unlisted. That's why I pay $34.95 a month for Optimum Voice...all numbers are unlisted and unpublished!

That why I pay $5.00 for a roll of aluminum foil to cover my walls and ceiling. To keep them out.

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Posted by: Gil

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Originally Posted by reno911_2004";p=&quot Quote: Originally Posted by kttref";p=&quot Quote: Originally Posted by DCON";p=&quot That's why I pay the $2 a month to be unlisted. That's why I pay $34.95 a month for Optimum Voice...all numbers are unlisted and unpublished! That why I pay $5.00 for a roll of aluminum foil to cover my walls and ceiling. To keep them out.

You too! I found that using the shiny side out works best.

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Posted by: dcs2244

Unlisted, non-published and not on Google.

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Posted by: kttref

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Originally Posted by reno911_2004";p=&quot That why I pay $5.00 for a roll of aluminum foil to cover my walls and ceiling. To keep them out.

Wow, you're getting ripped off on the cost for the aluminum foil! And I thought CT was expensive!

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Posted by: girlcop21

yeah what Gil said... even if you take your name of Google, there is a little blurb with about 6 other websites that have the same info on it and on some of them you can't take the info off...

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Posted by: JeepinWeezle

Call 411 they will do the same thing for the past 20 years

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Posted by: SOT

FYI that's not a "new" feature, that's a feature that has existed since day one.
Shocking that you can also go to people.yahoo.com and look up phone numbers and addresses, whitepages.com, infospace.com, whitepages.com and a whole host of others.


It's almost like reading a phone book! Jeebus!

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Posted by: Officer Dunngeon

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Originally Posted by reno911_2004";p=&quot That why I pay $5.00 for a roll of aluminum foil to cover my walls and ceiling. To keep them out.

I usually wear it on my head. To keep them out.

And oh yeah, you are a bunch of bitter, angry people. :no:

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Posted by: Jasper

is the "matter of honor" symbol you show on your posts a bumper sticker ? do not see it on their site..
where can one be acquired ??

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Posted by: Officer Dunngeon

No, it's just a logo to help promote the HONOR bracelet fund. Here is a link to the logos: Help advertise the HONOR bracelet - Click here

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Has anyone seen where Verizion wants to charge $60 a year to have your number unpublished and unlisted.

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Posted by: Wolfman

Next they'll want to charge extra to have your phone make some sort of noise to alert you when you get a call...like a bell or something...

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Posted by: Webster

We recently purchased a WestLaw account and found that almost everybody's unlisted/unpublished phone numbers were available. There isn't very much information that isn't available if you know where to look.

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