All of the information that this website produces comes from public resources. The reasons for multiple hits of the same person is that they show up on the many databases that the search engine uses, it doesn’t try to filter or combine similar information.
I know. In my opinion if the web master is too lazy to take the time to filter duplicates out on their own then they are wasting the public’s time. 
I for one don’t approve of the easy availability of such information to the whole world. Smack’s a bit to much of Orwell’s Big Brother. But, I blame myself for all the times I have willing given my personal information to people and business.
Most of this information was given to credit card companies and other lenders who readliy share with credit bureaus. I have sworn off of credit and am trying to get to zero debt, but the damage over the last 30 years is done.
The big culprit in this debacle is the Federal Government. By the original statute no one has the right to require you to give a Social Security Number, yet for decades there has been no enforcement of this law. Your SSN is the thread that ties everything together. It is only recently with the advent of internet idenity theft that this issue is slowly being addressed. My health insurance provider no longer uses my SSN as my ID, and PA doesn’t use the SSN for driver’s license numbers (some states do or did).
You are 100% right! A couple of years ago when I went to renew my driver’s license I refused to surrender my social security number citing the law that states it is illegal to request a person’s social security number for identification purposes. The DMV employee in Harrisburg handed me this small piece of paper that had typed on it that he had the right to obtain that information. I told him there was no signature to that note and for all I know he could have typed that up himself. It took me 3 hours but I got my driver’s license renewed without surrendering my social security number.
Every state in my opinion is at least partially responsible for the identify theft that takes place because the DMV of each state sells information to companies which generates several millions of dollars a year. If a fly by night company wants to run a scam and target the elderly which often is done, all they have to do is contact the DMV and request a list of people between let’s say the ages of 55 to 65. The DMV runs a computer print out for a fee of residents in that age group and mails it to the fly by night company. By the time the fly by night company’s scam is brought to light they have pretty much made their money off the elderly and have packed up their operation and are off to another state to start all over again.
When I obtained a cell phone years ago the cell phone company required my social security number which I refused to surrender and I cited the law. I requested I speak with their manager who happened to be unavailable. I then requested to speak with their attorney. Their attorney confirmed that I was right and they were wrong. The sales rep was caught between a rock and a hard place and still requested my social security number because that was company policy and he was bound to follow company policy. I told him I’m bound by my personal policy which is to preserve my privacy. I thanked him for his time and found another cell phone company to do business with who provided me with service without having my social security number.
The problem is people are all too willing to surrender personal information for a multitude of reasons. They are in a hurry and don’t want to go through the hassle of waiting like I did. They fear if they don’t surrender private information they will not get what they want but are really entitled to whether they surrender the information or not. People simply aren’t willing to question why certain personal information is required yet alone take a stand when it comes to upholding their own rights.
People need to stop and ask themselves why for centuries the government and others functioned quite well without having access to a person’s social security number and now they can’t?
I don’t kow know how to extricate myself from these databases, but I would if I could. I am not anti-social, I just like my privacy and my individuality. I don’t want someelse being me and sticking me with $1000’s in debt.
