Free Public-Records Search of Yourself
August 06, 2008
This is interesting:
ChoicePoint is one of the nation's leading information services companies. We believe you should have free access to your information and are providing you with an enhanced search of your public records. Access to your public records is provided free to each consumer on a yearly basis.
What is a public records search? A national search of public records from various sources including federal, state and local government agencies. You are provided the convenience of receiving search results that include records across our entire coverage area. Now you no longer have to contact individual government offices for your information.
You can do a public-records search of yourself here.
I was reluctant to set up a profile to obtain the free service, since they requested personal information such as my current address. "Is this a data harvesting tool," I asked myself. Given that I have student loans sent to my home address, my data must already be out there. So I took the plunge.
And, sure enough, there it was. Everything. The information they had on me is amazing. Every address I've resided at is listed. They even knew about a P.O. Box I had opened back when I was a teenager.
If Nietzsche were alive, he'd surely announce: Privacy is dead.