Spokeo in the News

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 [...]