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Reverse Lookup - Cause For Concern?
This article deals
primarily with the concerns of a service like reverse lookup. It brings into
question the technology and whether we should be complaining about or embracing
it.
The reverse lookup
feature on many search websites has been hailed as a breakthrough technology for
the general public. But is this really the case? Is the ability to search out
people and find their basic details, full name, address, zip code, a good thing?
Are we on the verge of worldwide unity through technology or are we seeing a
collapse in privacy because of advancements like reverse lookup?
It depends really. Some
people are concerned that this is just another step in keeping people under
heavy guard, even if they don't know it. That is quite a concern, one that
brings to mind images of men in black and government harassment. But is that
really the issue here? Or have things been taken a bit to far?
The technology behind a
reverse phone search is nothing new. In fact, it has been used for quite some
time now by emergency services like 911. The ability to identify a caller and
bring up his or her home address has certainly helped emergency services fight
crime and save lives. But then again, the data involved has always been under
the heavy lock and key of government agencies.
Now, though, the public
has access to a certain amount of "free" information on practically every
citizen of the free world. Website databases, built on information garnered
through phone companies around the globe, now allow themselves to be scanned by
search websites in ways that work similarly to the emergency services.
Reverse Lookup - The
Way It Works
For example, anyone can
type in a number and perform a search. The search site, after scanning all the
relevant databases, will then provide the searcher with the info he needs.
Again, we're looking at a full name, address, and zip code among the few details
available.
The question is,
"Should this kind of information be so readily available on the Internet?"
Some people seem to
think so and champion the service. They are not so concerned with the government
or other people spying on them as they are with improving their lives. Reverse
searches can be beneficial in some ways, particularly if you have a number you
really to to do a background check on. There's no other way of doing so than to
go to a search site and run a reverse scan.
Others, however, think
that Big Brother is getting ever bigger. Their main issue is the loss of privacy
and the frightful ease that a person can get his hands on another person's
personal details. They argue that this so called "breakthrough" phone search
feature will ultimately be detrimental to society in that the use of data can
and will be abused on more levels.
Reverse Lookup - Shared
Trust
Right now though, there
isn't sufficient furor over the whole issue and many people are content to have
their information out there, as long as they have access to other people's
information as well. As with most other web-based technologies there is a trust
factor that helps websites and services survive. When people start losing that
trust, internet services go under.
Only time will tell if
a reverse lookup facility will keep the people's trust.
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