Thanks for the writeup on Rapleaf and the good feedback. One thing we are helping people with is alerting them to public information about them that is available on the web. For example, if you have a social network profile that you forgot about and is now incorrect – rapleaf will find that info and help you manage it.

Email us anytime if you ever have questions.

Cheers!

–Dan
Rapleaf

I found this alarming and made sure to remove myself from any Rapleaf searches… I still wonder how easily all those companies give out the email addresses. I mean Flickr, who needs to know which e-mail address for instance i signed up my flickr account with……?

Unfortunately Rapleaf appear to be linked to both upscoop and trustfuse. The latter sells your details onto ‘marketeers’ or spammers as we call them around here. A vile little site that has helped itself to my private personal information and sold it on. I have no idea how tany US privacy laws relate to it, but they have certainly broken the data protection laws in the UK where I reside.

Interesting collection of comments so far on a fairly complex issue… I wonder what the best way to deal with the issue is?

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