Privacy Unplugged

Spokeo’s Chief Privacy Officer, Angela Saverice-Rohan, and I recently attended the Privacy Academy organized by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) in San Jose, California. While I enjoyed discussing privacy with experts from around the world, I think it is even more important for conference attendees to return to their companies and share their takeaways with their [...]

Today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing to examine the recent privacy reports that were released by the Obama Administration and the FTC. Witnesses on the panel include FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen and Department of Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry. Tune [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about “what you can and can’t do with Spokeo.” If you didn’t get a chance read it, here’s the key quote: “[While we at Spokeo] pride ourselves on providing the public with a powerful tool to reconnect old friends and classmates, find lost family members, expose fraudsters [...]

As you know, Spokeo is a people search engine that pulls public information from online and offline sources and compiles it into an organized listing. Spokeo can be used to reconnect with friends and family, manage your online reputation, and more! Of course, we recognize that some users may prefer not to have public information [...]

I recently heard someone use this cliché: "The news spread like wildfire." Wildfire moves quickly, no doubt (as us Californians are all-too-aware), but have you seen the way a viral video spreads? Someone uploads a video of some girl at the mall who is too busy texting to notice she’s about to fall into a [...]

As mentioned in our previous blog, Spokeo has been a sizzling hot news topic recently. I’m sure you’ve all seen the warning messages about Spokeo that you’re supposed to repost to your friends on your Facebook and Twitter accounts, or heard about Spokeo from your local news stations. To help clear up any confusion and [...]

Preface Spokeo’s privacy practices have been a sizzling hot topic of late. The rumors and conjecture surrounding our most recent product seem to have proliferated like wildfire, pervading the blog circuit and media in surprising ways. To help clear up the confusion and dispel some of the more baffling myths, we would like to spotlight [...]