Wes;
This is currently being used by business for even more devious
reasons. Example; A friend of mine owned a 2002 Corvette Z06.
She was auto-crossing it when the engine oil-starved and the
bottom end siezed. She had it towed to the dealership for R&R
of engine under warrenty. She got a call at 10:00 AM the next
morning from the Service Manager - he asked her to come to the
dealership to discuss repairs of her car. When she got there,
she was shown into a conference room & then informed that the
warenty was "VOID" because she "raced the car" After she gave
them a piece of her mind about GM's warrenty policy she asked
"besides, how do you know what I do with my car?" At that
point, he opened a 3-ring binder with race results for the
past 3 years - ALL TAKEN OFF THE INTERNET! To make a long
story short, she took he complaint all the way up to the
Corvette Chief Engineer & got her car fixed under warrenty.
Another friend was less lucky - when he blew up his Z06 (under
warrenty) he had to pay for 1/2 of the repairs when they
pulled the same stunt on him. Another friend had his life
insurance policy "changed" by the company when an internet
search revealed that he was a sky-diver & racer. I could go
on, but you get the point. Too bad George Orwell wrote 1984
before computers - I'm sure the book would have been entirely
different!
Ed
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:16:20 -0600
>From: W S Potter <wester6935@attbi.com>
>Subject: What Google knows about you
>To: "land-speed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>
>If you type in your telephone number with no spaces, often
Google will come
>back with a name, street address and a ink to a map showing
how to get to
>your residence.
>
>If you type in your name, for example ... John Doe,
California ... you can
>get a listing of everyone with that name, addresses and
telephone numbers.
>
>Listings are older, not updated frequently, cell phone
numbers don't seem to
>work and I'm finding some names or numbers don't show up with
information.
>The frightening thing is that so many DO come up.
>
>You may want to check on things yourself. My daughter pulled
up information
>on every house on our street, tell you the whole tax history
and such. You
>can do this for almost anywhere in the country.
>
>George Orwell is right ... Big Brother is Watching!
>
>Wes
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