I was searching for info on a classmate that passed away recently. One of the resorses that came up in my search was a website named My Life.
It had some information but I had my doubts about some things it said. So I did a search on myself. Sure nuff I'm there. They had a lot of bogus stuff on my account and offered to do a deep search. Okay, I tried that and it whirled for a long while an said it found stuff. Then it found judgements against me, and a court record for something. WHAT???
So I wanted to see those. Nope. Not allowed. It's my data but no I cannot view it, even when it's wrong UNLESS I pay them money. I could buy a 3 day access for less than $5 but then it automatically will charge me more ...and they'd have my credit card number. I refuse to pay to see what data they have on me. Now (since I was dumb enough to give my email address when I tried to sign up before knowing it would cost me) they have my email. I knew better but I screwed up. Now I'm getting emails saying there has been a change to your data. A court action or a crimminal record found ...etc etc. All BS. All to entice me to sign up and straighten it out. No freaking way.
How these websites can collect all this data and then sell my data by having people sign up and then giving them access to see BS about me or anyone else upsets me. But as far as I know there is not a damn thing I can do about it. Frustrating.
MY LIFE is not the only one of these type sites so I guess all I can say is: be careful out there. don't let em sucker you in.
It had some information but I had my doubts about some things it said. So I did a search on myself. Sure nuff I'm there. They had a lot of bogus stuff on my account and offered to do a deep search. Okay, I tried that and it whirled for a long while an said it found stuff. Then it found judgements against me, and a court record for something. WHAT???
So I wanted to see those. Nope. Not allowed. It's my data but no I cannot view it, even when it's wrong UNLESS I pay them money. I could buy a 3 day access for less than $5 but then it automatically will charge me more ...and they'd have my credit card number. I refuse to pay to see what data they have on me. Now (since I was dumb enough to give my email address when I tried to sign up before knowing it would cost me) they have my email. I knew better but I screwed up. Now I'm getting emails saying there has been a change to your data. A court action or a crimminal record found ...etc etc. All BS. All to entice me to sign up and straighten it out. No freaking way.
How these websites can collect all this data and then sell my data by having people sign up and then giving them access to see BS about me or anyone else upsets me. But as far as I know there is not a damn thing I can do about it. Frustrating.
MY LIFE is not the only one of these type sites so I guess all I can say is: be careful out there. don't let em sucker you in.