I know this has nothing to do with jets but I wanted you guys that use Google or in my case that dont. That if you type in your telephone number. Google will show your name address and even how to get to your homes. My uncle emailed this to me and I have tried it. Even if you have an unpublished number it will still do this so beware!!!

Hmmm, didn't work for me or my mom's home number. There is a bit more info about it from the [link=http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/google.htm]www.snopes.com[/link] site,

As to the issue of whether this Google feature is a shocking invasion of privacy, there are a few points to keep in mind:

This feature is not new — the PhoneBook service has been offered by Google for almost two years now.

This feature does not work for every phone number. Some classes of phone numbers, such as unpublished phone numbers (i.e., numbers belonging to customers who have requested that their local phone service providers not publish their numbers in printed phone directories or make them available through directory assistance), will not display.

The information displayed is compiled from a number of publicly accessible sources and is not unique to Google. There are many other web sources through which users can look up the same information.

Google has simply combined two different services readily available on a number of different web sites — reverse phone directory look-ups and mapping/driving directions services — into one step. Even without Google, it's a simple feat for any moderately knowledgeable web user to plug a phone number into a reverse phone directory web site to find the name and address corresponding to that number, then use an on-line service such as Mapquest to obtain directions to that address.

In short, the Google PhoneBook feature may be troubling to those who value their privacy, but it's a symptom and not a cause. The larger issue is that many entities we deal with in daily life who are privy to our personal information can make that information available to sources that compile databases which services such as Google PhoneBook use. The public has been making privacy gains through the implementation of laws such as those requiring credit bureaus, phone companies, and motor vehicle bureaus to offer "opt-out" features which provide customers with means to restrict the distribution of their personal information, but until that larger issue is completely eliminated, trying to keep one's personal information off the web is akin to engaging in a perpetual game of "Wack-a-Mole": momentarily satisfying but ultimately accomplishing nothing.

I thought it was kinda cool to go to "airial map and get a satalite photo of my place.

This is not new at Google. They have been doing this for quite awhile now.....

Welcome to the 21st century!



be nice, or we will find you!

Rgds, Enrique

Please FIND ME!!! im lost...Sorry for putting this up but my uncle has a way of blowing things way out of proportion..I cant believe that he went to a lawyer to try and sue any internet company that gives out his info..Well the guys 65 and is set in his ways. I told him just to grin and bare it. He's new to the internet and doesnt understand any of it soooo..need i say more. Maybe I need to buy him the Internet for Idiots book..lol...Well you guys have a great day unfortunately its back to work for me and when I get home i bet there will be 20 email just from my uncle about this...

If you really want to get him going have him try to register his own name![X(] I believe it was yahoo that got everyones personal name locked up a fewe years back.

NO!!! cant do that or I will never hear the end of it...besides give him until my cousin comes home on leave to make him understand it all...then sooner or later he will find something else to complain about