Interesting Tidbit
Sometime ago I was reading a blog that asked, “Why do people bother to block out their license plate numbers when their car is in it?” He mentioned how we display it publicly on our cars and drive around all the time, so why bother blocking it when you post on the internet. Well… I think I found a reason not to.
It turns out that there are a few sites looking up American plates on cars. You’ll be blessed with all sorts of great information about that plate, like: addresses, previous addresses, unlisted addresses, driving offenses, parking violations, liens and more. The idea that anyone can look up my name or plate and find that information about me is not only scary, but nearly a violation of intended use of that information. Most of these sites are detective agencies of some sort.
I found one that goes by CIS World Wide, but they seem to be a complete scam as far as I’m concerned. They claim unlimited lookups, but really you get 5 credits to use some really poor searches. If it doesn’t turn anything up, well your out your credits. They link to a bunch of other services that do searches as well, so I supposed that is a sort of service. I’m inclined to make a page that has all the links to those services for free, see how they feel about that. If anyone is interested in doing any sort of background check on someone and wants a link to a bunch of resources… let me know.
I did manage to get a list of all the property and phone numbers for Steve Jobs thou, that was mildly amusing.
