No Privacy with the free service Zabasearch
A friend of mine recently told me about Zabasearch, an online service (completely free) that allows you to look up people’s name.
I was quite shocked when I see the results of my Zabasearch. Anyway, Zabasearch gathers all the public records (real estate transactions, listed phone numbers, etc) and aggregate them so you can search it by name.
Try searching your own name in Zabasearch and I think you will be surprised at the results. Far more surprising that googling your name.
A little reading in their About Us page points that the company was founded by the founders of US Search. If you don’t know US Search, they are an internet company that allows you to pay to research someone’s background (read: stalking).
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I guess this has its place when landlords researching the prospective tenants’ backgrounds, or for meeting someone over online dating. But aside from these cases, the idea sounds spooky. I heard though that the company is making a lot of money (millions) from selling the data online. Another company in this space is Intelius.
Please comment out if you’re also shocked like I am with your Zabasearch!
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Comment from Keith
Time: May 29, 2008, 1:28 pm
I too was shocked when I found my information on ZabaSearch.com - they had almost every address and phone number listed from every property that I have ever owned as well as the year and month of my birth.
One thing that I have found is that Zaba offers “Opt out Services” right on their home which is pretty cool - $20.00 and they will block all that appears about me or you as the case may be - well worth the price
Zaba has its place - I am just glad that I am not able to be found in it any longer -
Regards and good luck with your Blog -
Keith