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Spokeo
Spokeo is a people search website that aggregates data from online and offline sources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.spokeo.com/blog/2010/07/1516/ )〕
==History==
Spokeo was founded in 2006 by a group of people who graduated from Stanford University—Mike Daly, Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, and Eric Liang.〔 The original idea came from Tang, who found it difficult to keep up with all the different posts his friends made across various social networks. The four founders developed the idea in early 2006, using Tang's parent's basement. In November 2006 the site officially launched, after attracting an initial round of angel investment in the "low hundreds of thousands" according to co-founder Ray Chen.
The site has evolved to become an information-gathering website that offers various options for finding information about people. It purports to know, among other things, your income, religion, spouse's name, credit status, the number of people in your household, a satellite shot of your house and its estimated value.〔http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/01/19/spokeo-cyber-security-warn-threat-privacy/〕
Criticisms, complaints and lawsuits are common for the site. Larry Ponemon, the chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, an organization that researches Internet privacy and security said: “It's evil for organizations to collect information that is knowingly inaccurate about people, no matter how many caveats they have,” he said, pointing out that the sites also make it easy for criminals to access your personal information, opening the door to identity theft—or worse.〔
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