Do you know that somebody may buy the list of phones you dialed from your cell phone during the last month?

People will know if you called your psychologist, your financial broker, your priest or just a friend.  Even worst, do you know that some websites offer to find your cell phone number, your private mailbox, and your physical home address for just a modest fee?  This is what some online data brokers do.

Data brokers collect information from different sources and the scope of the information they collect varies from company to company.  For instance, credit report agencies are data brokers which exclusively provide information on peoples’ credit history to corporations or employers.  Some data brokers may offer services to individual customers like bestpeoplesearch.com.  Bestpeoplesearch.com sells the list of your cell’s last dialed phone numbers.  Other companies like Abika.com offers to identify your real identity behind your AOL screen name; Peoplesearchamerica.com provides information on your mail box and cell phone calls; and Onlinepi.com offers to locate your cell phone.  Data brokers like credit report agencies may be subject to specific US legislation like the Credit Report Act and other Federal legislation, which may already afford some privacy protection to US fellows.