Instant Checkmate
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 11:35 pm
Just been reading some news story about drink driving in the US. At the bottom, it has an advert:
So I went to their webpage:
http://www.instantcheckmate.com/
I thought this must have been a hoax site...this seems to be confined to the US as far as I can see, and not available in the UK, so may not be of interest to anyone here, but I found it pretty shocking what's available in the US.
I have 2 American friends on Facebook, so I thought I would type one of their names in and see what came up.
The guy I know is called Spencer Guy, from Texas area.
The search runs for a while then shows this:
The relatives are correct, the ones on this top match are his relatives.
If you click on his name, it does some more searching, and comes up with a page to pay, but it shows a map on the right centred in Dallas, where he lives and works.
The actual report could be fairly mundane I suppose, but something about all this feels very wrong to me. It seems that anyone in the US can snoop on anyone they want.
So I went to their webpage:
http://www.instantcheckmate.com/
I thought this must have been a hoax site...this seems to be confined to the US as far as I can see, and not available in the UK, so may not be of interest to anyone here, but I found it pretty shocking what's available in the US.
I have 2 American friends on Facebook, so I thought I would type one of their names in and see what came up.
The guy I know is called Spencer Guy, from Texas area.
The search runs for a while then shows this:
The relatives are correct, the ones on this top match are his relatives.
If you click on his name, it does some more searching, and comes up with a page to pay, but it shows a map on the right centred in Dallas, where he lives and works.
The actual report could be fairly mundane I suppose, but something about all this feels very wrong to me. It seems that anyone in the US can snoop on anyone they want.