Privacy? I think I remember that.

Privacy used to be simple. If you shut your blinds and got an unlisted phone number, you were pretty much covered. As with so many things, the Internet has changed that dynamic, and privacy has gone from a default situation to something you have to actively fight to maintain. The latest sign of this is a web-site called spokeo.com which makes a frightening amount of personal information available to anyone with access to a web-browser. If the information that's available for free is any indication, the material available to paying subscribers is probably an identity thief's paradise. Thankfully, there appears to be a low-hassle and (more to the point) effective way to remove your information available under the site's privacy settings. That's the good news. The bad news is that another web-site doing the same thing can't be far behind.