OT: Scary google reverse phone number -- please read

edited 1102pm: You realize, of course, that Google is not "divulging your private info", they are displaying information that is freely and publicly available in any phone book.  I can plug your number into www.whitepages.com and get your address as well.  The BEST way to avoid this is to tell the phone company to not publish your address information in the phone book. Please read:  posted from PS board 2/11/08:  ( I tried it and it worked...so I did the form to remove my name) "" Post Date: 2/11/08 7:22 pm Forward this to everyone you know...    Google has a new feature - you type in your phone number in the search bar, and it pulls up your name and address (if your number is published).  If you then hit MapQuest, you will get a map to the person's house.  Its a nationwide reverse phonebook. This can be a scary situation for many reasons.  In oder to test if your number is mapped, go to google (http://www.google.com/) Type your number in the search bar (i.e.555-555-1212) and hit enter.  If you want to BLOCK Google from divulging your private info, simply click on your telephone number  and then click on the Removal Form.  Removal takes 48 hours.  This may not apply to you if you have an unlisted number or cell phone as primary contact, but you may know someone who needs to know this.

There are several sites where you can do the reverse listing. 

I typed in all my family's numbers and it showed where everyone lived.All the map websites work this way, as long as you have an address it will show you directions how to get there.I guess you can't hide from anyone even if you tried LOL.

Yeah, if you are in the phone book, they're gonna figure out where you live! And really, just about anyone I give my phone number to already knows where I live. If someone knows your name, they are going to be able to find your number on whitepages.com. It's hard to hide these days!

do the removal at the bottom of the site. takes 48 hours but I did mine.

There are so many sites out there like this.  You may remove yourself from one but there are too many to list. 

Google is not "divulging your private info", they are displaying information that is freely and publicly available in any phone book.  I can plug your number into www.whitepages.com and get your address as well.  The BEST way to avoid this is to tell the phone company to not publish your address information in the phone book.

This really isn't new. It's been going around the internet for quite some time. I think I may have done the removal thing before, but my home number and info still comes up (but that's probably because I have a different landline than I did before). Oh well, if someone REALLY wants to find me, they will. My phone number and address are in the local phone book, so it's available on whitepages.com.

I put my phone number in backwards and it told me to go to hell! kp

   I did mine again and it said I was already there