Remaining anonymous is nearly impossible nowadays

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• shailynn

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  7 months ago

  Posted a pic? They don’t voluntarily post their own photo on those mugshot websites.
• rickdugan

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  7 months ago

  Lol shailynn. I actually came across one of those as well. 😆
• 5footguy

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  7 months ago

  ^^ He's not saying they did. He's saying they posted a pic on a social media site or something, and obviously the facecheck site scraped it. And he's implying that it's careless to throw your pic around everywhere, and I agree 100%.
• Brahma2k

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  7 months ago

  Google reverse image search has been around for years. Facecheck has taken facial recognition up a notch. But there are a few tricks to use in a photo that can stump the pic search AI. BUT as good as it still is, when you know a cell phone number then you likely have the encyclopedia on that person. Unless it’s a burner number via something like Google voice signed up for using a hide my type email, one’s life story is either attached to that number or information attached to that number opens the next door to everything. Every email you’ve ever used across social media, DoB,family, schooling, current and past residences,criminal record etc.
• rickdugan

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  7 months ago

  Brahma, Google reverse image search is nearly useless unless they used the exact same pic someplace else. Facecheck is bonified facial recognition software that is light years ahead. I stopped bothering with Google a long time ago because I so rarely got a hit. A cell phone number is only useful if someone has used it in something posted online. There is no national cell phone white pages. Even the paid searches rely upon publicly available data. Similar to images, the reason they are often useful is because so many people are careless about where they them. I have had the same cell number for 15 years and it is a dead end, including in the paid searches.
• mike710

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  7 months ago

  Maybe Facecheck is the best of what's available, but I tried on a person that I know has at least 4 public instagram accounts and it didn't find her.
• minnow

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  7 months ago

  Good topic, rick. I hope that I can further refine my privacy guards by learning what works for people who have. I don't post my cell # on social media (I avoid Facebook for reasons given by others) yet I still get unwanted spam calls on my cell. Makes me wonder if any medical, financial, or govt. site got hacked, or any employee compromised my data. Just for the hell of it, I searched myself and others on "My Life". Talk about flawed- info on that is inaccurate or outdated. I don't bother with pay walls either. Chime in......
• rickdugan

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  7 months ago

  Minnow, it goes beyond putting your cell number on a social media site. If you've ever used in anything posted to the public, it can be found. This includes school contact lists, court documents that are available in a public search, voter drives, charitable endeavors where you are listed as a contact or recognized participant, some ad you posted or responded to in order to sell or purchase some item - the list is endless. The paid sites in particular scrape a lot of the less obvious public sources that Google sometimes misses. I have a VOIP business line that I use for anything that might end up in some public database. It leads to a business address several states away that I never use anymore and the website of business that I own. Sure someone with subpoena powers could follow the bread crumb trail and ultimately find me, but anything short of that and my contact numbers are nothing but a trail of dead ends.
• JamesSD

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  7 months ago

  It's an incredibly powerful and somewhat scary tool that if someone has a high resolution image of you and searches, they will find your public profile like LinkedIn. It definitely should be concerning for swingers and only fans girls.
• skibum609

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  7 months ago

  James nailed it. Aff, SLS pics are wonderful starting places to get dirt on people.
• Muddy

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  7 months ago

  Yeah it's gotta be tough being married or what not or your trying to hide this hobby. I just have nothing to hide so if I'm outed, oh well. But hey one day that might not be true anymore and yeah that stuff is crazy. For the record I use my photo and show my face on there. (Could be why nobody answers back....fuck)
• Jascoi

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  7 months ago

  All this shit is way over my head.
• shailynn

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  7 months ago

  big brother in full effect. Because of this post I did a search on myself. I have worked hard to “erase” myself from the internet. There are no photos of me on the internet. I don’t have any social media or a LinkedIn account. You know how you type in your name and there’s those “radaris” webpages that show all your info. Some of them you can request to have your information removed. I always make that request. Ran into one today and it’s scary. Very scary. They even have my siblings spouses nieces and nephews listed as relatives of mine and they live on the other side of the country. It lists the equity amount on my home which essentially says how much I still owe, and it’s accurate to the penny. It shows every phone number I’ve ever had in my entire life. Every address including one I lived in for a few months while in college. I don’t even remember forwarding any mail to that address! I’ve seen these a million times before but I’ve never seen one dig this deep. I guess this is a remind - stay out of trouble - they will find you.
• rickthelion

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  7 months ago

  Fortunately, all us lions look the same to you damn dirty apes. If I asked cecilthelion to dress up in a stylin’ suit I bet y’all would be greeting him with “hi rick!” Life is good when you’re a frickin’ lion. You damn dirty apes are fucked. ROAR!!!
• shailynn

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  7 months ago

  ^ I’m not sure you’re too credible on this topic, after all you wipe your ass with rabbits you pick up from the jungle floor.
• rickmacrodong

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  7 months ago

  Rick so youve never used your personal cell phone number in any of those things like charity events school drives etc? There is another factor to consider, which is if someone works for one of the phone companies or knows someone who works at one. For example if you use tmobile, someone who works at tmobile could search your number on their database and then see your personal information you used to sign up. Things like your name and the address the statements are registered to But it would still take some effort on the dancers part and a connection at a phone company willing to help
• Estafador

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  7 months ago

  Apparently it thinks all black people look the same. Joint compared me to a bald older guy a bald face guy and a woman. Jeez racist ass trchnology
• Puddy_Tat

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  7 months ago

  I've searched myself and it's a mixture of right and wrong information. They have my history of addresses right, but list my current address as the one from 5 years ago (2 moves ago). They have my occupation as that of a different family member with the same name and a much lower salary than I make. They have some relatives right and some wrong. What I'd like to know is where they pull from. I know some of these social media companies are data whores. Facebook suggests as friends random coworkers I have no one in common with there and only connect with on LinkedIn, girls I've met off Tinder once and never even got their last name, and more. You just know these tech giants are swapping our data.
• skibum609

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  7 months ago

  I googled myself and came away far more impressed with what they post about me, than what I know to be true.