Spokeo in the News

Are you looking to buy a house but aren’t sure if it’s on the market? With Spokeo, all you have to do is ask…the home owners themselves. Reuters recently published an interesting article (and mentions Spokeo) about buying homes that aren’t necessarily for sale. According to the National Association of Realtors, “20 percent of those who sold their [...]

  Spokeo’s founder and president, Harrison Tang, answered some questions for Ideamensch.com. Take a look at the interview and get to know the man behind the idea for Spokeo. Harrison Q&A with Ideamensch.com  

If you’ve been paying attention to this blog in recent months, you’ll know that we’ve been adding cool new features to our site at a dizzying rate. (Have you tried out our Famous People search feature yet? No? Get searching!) While we pride ourselves on providing the public with a powerful tool to reconnect with [...]

A troop of sad-looking children shuffle listlessly to a bus stop. A young woman sighs as she folds up her Slip n’ Slide. A deflated beach ball is tossed onto the cold, concrete floor of a garage. A depressed man of 25 eats a plate of Pizza Rolls while regretfully looking outside the window. What [...]

Things move fast here at Spokeo, and it can be hard to keep up. Some of you have even asked if we have a "News" section. We do, and guess what? You’re reading it right now! This blog is many things, to be sure: a clearing house of truth, a dependable place for a good [...]

Spokeo founder Harrison Tang recently sat down with Time magazine columnist Joel Stein to discuss Spokeo, the "people search industry," online privacy and much more. It was a frank and open discussion, and you can read a small portion of the interview in the latest issue of Time. We were definitely excited to be mentioned [...]

For those of you who may not have heard, The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) – a non-profit public interest group that, interestingly, bills itself as “working to keep the Internet open, innovative, and free”– filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week, alleging that Spokeo’s practices violate the Fair Credit [...]

Harrison, co-founder of Spokeo, was on CNN Newsroom last night with anchor Brooke Baldwin discussing Internet privacy. Did anyone catch the broadcast? Still looking for a video!    

We just got on the MSN front page couple hours ago.  As expected, hundred of thousands of people are flocking to Spokeo right now, and the incoming traffic is beyond our imagination.  The site has ground to a halt, and even we administrators cannot access it at the moment.  We don’t have a solution for [...]