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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Attempting to Remove Yourself From Pipl: Pointless

Ah, here's a great example of hiding behind the law.

www.pipl.com

Look yourself up.

When you've found yourself, make note of the "source" website for each datum, because Pipl claims absolutely no responsibility for posting this information correct, or incorrect about you.  In fact, when you click on the "Remove my information" link, there is a full page of hand-waving where they say that they take no responsibility for the information they post and refuse to remove it in any way.

Supposedly, this is because they are an indexing service (like Google- a search engine) are protected from having to address privacy issues because the don't "store" the information.  Now, this is where they get away with it, because they DO store your information- they temporarily store the results of their bots for a certain number of days.  For Google, it's 30 days on average.  They ARE storing the information- wouldn't it be great if they could/would be held in contempt of the law for continuing to perpetuate private information that has been removed from the source site?

Now, you can contact them via email at "Mail@pipl.com", but good luck.  It's probably a spam folder for them and they probably have an auto-generated message for each inquiry that they refuse to update or remove your information.





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