Personal info by googling your moby no!!

Bettyboop

Just listening to Joe Duffy and a lady googled her mobile no and a lot of personal info came up.I did mine and got my emails and p.m.s:eek:and my home address.

dubmick

do you use Google Desktop?

Bettyboop

dubmick wrote:

do you use Google Desktop?

yes

spurious

Bah I found nothing on my mobile number, but I find lots on my real name.

zuutroy

Nuffin came up for any of my old numbers

super_furry

No matched documents....

aidan_walsh

In that case, Google Desktop is returning the information off your own computer. None of that is out in the public domain, its just Google Desktop's way to make it look like other search results.

c - 13

Just googled my house number, mobile number and email addresses. No matches found for any of them.

watna

Thought that was scary, but then i tried it out and didn't find a thing. Even my name didn't bring up anything exciting. I need to do something with my life!

Rebeller

Don't forget that thanks to google's cache any info you place on a public website (forum posts, adverts, reviews on amazon etc) will survive in cyberspace long after you think it has been removed.

Google retains a record of every search term requested through it's servers. This info is logged along with your IP address and date and time of the request meaning that your fetish for dogs in tights could ultimately become public knowledge if google ever decide to release any of this info as AOL did recently (see here)

If you happen to enter very personally identifiable info such as your mobile number, e-mail address PPS number etc into google this info enables anyone with access to such data to identify that you are jim murphy living at such and such address who has an interest in necrophilia!


The fact that this data is being retained at all means that it is susceptible to be handed over to the authorities on foot of a warrant. Given the recent revelation about excessive Garda access to phone data retained by phone and mobile providers, and that fact that herr macdowell is attempting to force ISP's to retain data on websites visited and e-mails sent by all citizens for a 3 year period (to combat terrorism!) this could mean that a random garda could trawl through your online history even though you have not committed any offence.

We are truly living in a big brother, surveillance society with our privacy rights gradually being eroded in the name of fighting crime and terrorism!

Have a look at the Digital Rights Ireland website for more info on data retention by the Irish state.

Big brother is really watching you!

Crucifix

Nothing for my mobile. I once googled a number from a missed call though, and was surprised that it worked and I found exactly who it was, as well as their address.

I was wondering what a "moby no" was...

zuutroy

Crucifix wrote:

Nothing for my mobile. I once googled a number from a missed call though, and was surprised that it worked and I found exactly who it was, as well as their address.

Have done this many times with good success, particularly when job searching.

aidan_walsh

bluewolf wrote:

I was wondering what a "moby no" was...

Gaspode

Rebeller wrote:

The fact that this data is being retained at all means that it is susceptible to be handed over to the authorities on foot of a warrant. Given the recent revelation about excessive Garda access to phone data retained by phone and mobile providers, and that fact that herr macdowell is attempting to force ISP's to retain data on websites visited and e-mails sent by all citizens for a 3 year period (to combat terrorism!) this could mean that a random garda could trawl through your online history even though you have not committed any offence.

Random Gardai are subjuct to Heisenbergs uncertainty principle and can never actually be truly said to exist in any one place at any given moment in time. Therefore you cannot prove that they can trawl through anybody's history, though they can be postulated to be reading everybody's history at the same time.

Dear oh Dear, thats all a tad on the paranoid side isn't it- what have you got to hide?! So what if Big Brothers watching - unless you're trying to snag some minors for sex or buy somthing illegal, who cares if your footprints on the web are visible? My neighbours can see me when I head up to Tescos - should I be worried that people know I'm shopping, and maybe even what I'm buying?

RandolphEsq

What is the big fear people have about 'big brother' watching them? As the previous poster said, you've only got to be worried if you're breaking the law.

aidan_walsh

BrightEyes wrote:

What is the big fear people have about 'big brother' watching them? As the previous poster said, you've only got to be worried if you're breaking the law.

That all depends on who the Big Brother in question is, doesn't it?

Señor Butts

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Overheal

no matched documents for me....thats a rare thing on the google engine...

Señor Butts

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CiaranC

BrightEyes wrote:

What is the big fear people have about 'big brother' watching them? As the previous poster said, you've only got to be worried if you're breaking the law.

The book the quote in your sig comes from covers the issue quite well. You have read it, right?

Gaspode

? wtf?^

Splinter

ahh someone ban him for sig issues.....nothing on my number...

Señor Butts

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Rebeller

deswalsh wrote:

Dear oh Dear, thats all a tad on the paranoid side isn't it- what have you got to hide?! So what if Big Brothers watching - unless you're trying to snag some minors for sex or buy somthing illegal, who cares if your footprints on the web are visible? My neighbours can see me when I head up to Tescos - should I be worried that people know I'm shopping, and maybe even what I'm buying?

Ah......the old "you'd only have a problem with it if you have something to hide argument". The argument used to quell any opposition to unnecessary erosions of basic civil liberties.

Sure, why would you oppose Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank etc unless you were anti-Semitic? Why would you oppose the US war of(sic) terror unless you are a card carrying islamo-fascist?

So, let's say you happen to have a run-in with a neighbour who happens to be a garda, perhaps a dispute over his refusal to turn down the volume on his Daniel O' Donnell after midnight on a Monday. Now let's say that you take a civil action against said Garda over noise disturbance which results in him having to pay you a certain sum in damages.

He wouldn't be too happy about it so he decides to take a trawl through your phone and internet data to see if he can find anything to use against you as "punishment" for you daring to go up against him. Lo and behold he discovers that you are a regular visitor to a website providing info on STIs. He knows you're married so wonders why a married person would be concerned about such diseases unless you are playing away from home so to speak:D

Now, while the above scenario may sound a little far-fetched I use is simply to illustrate the danger of compiling vast volumes of data on a state's citizenry. The fact such data exists means the possibility for abuse exists.

If you have nothing to hide you wouldn't have any objection to having CCTV installed in every room in your house so that the Gardai could determine whether or not you are engaging in any criminal activity (drug use etc.)

Shur....why do any of us want any privacy at all?........Unless we have something to hide:rolleyes:

Caliden

thats a mighty disturbing signature

biko

CiaranC wrote:

The book the quote in your sig comes from covers the issue quite well. You have read it, right?

Excellent read in fact!

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