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Aardvark privacy fail…. you're really sending me peoples names and cities?

10/30/2009

This is crazy right?

———- Forwarded message ———-
From:
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Subject: People you may know have recently joined Aardvark…

Hi Jason,

You may know these people who recently joined Aardvark:
- Chris Thomson / 16 / M / Toronto, Canada (your friend on Facebook)
- Steph Brooks / F / Panama City, FL (a friend of Aaron Brazell)
- Mike Campbell / M / Louisville, KY (a friend of Jason Falls)
- Simon Small / 26 / M / Melbourne, Australia (a friend of Jason Falls)
- Robert Gonsalves / M / Campbell, CA (a friend of Richard Titus)
- Andy Evans / 39 / M / London, UK (a friend of Michael Arrington)
- Matt West / 36 / M / LA, CA
- Richard Rosenblatt / 40 / M / Woodland Hills, CA (your friend on Facebook)
- Ryan Ozawa / 34 / M / Honolulu, HI (your friend on Facebook)
- Steve Outing / 52 / M / Boulder, CO (your friend on Facebook)
- Sharyn Horowitz / F / Yardley, PA
- Karen Fetty / F / NYC, NY
- Brad Leonard / M / Saint Louis, MO
- Scott Granneman / 41 / M / St. Louis, MO
- Laura Betterly / F / Clearwater, FL (your friend on Facebook)
- Mark Ganchrow / 47 / M / Rochester, NY
- Mike McLean / 43 / M / Jacksonville, FL
- Mike Wu / 36 / M / Hoboken, NJ (a friend of Jason Herskowitz)
- Scott Jacobs / M / Los Angeles, CA (a friend of Renee Blodgett)
- Chick Foxgrover / M / Brooklyn, NY
- JC Bouvier / 38 / M / Manhattan, NY
- William Tunstall-Pedoe / M / Cambridge, UK (a friend of Renee Blodgett)
- David Gusick / M / Westport, CT (a friend of Jonathan Guttenberg)
- Mick Adams / M / Hobart, Australia (a friend of Lon Harris)
- Walter Allen / M / Saint Louis, MO
- Bob Martens / 23 / M / Mankato, MN
- Jorge Arguedas / 39 / M / San Jose, CA
- Don MacAskill / 32 / M / Mountain View, CA (a friend of Robert Scoble)
- Dan Fost / M / SF, CA (a friend of Michael Arrington)
- Joe Dominick / 44 / M / Parkville, MD
- Nate Ritter / M / San Diego, CA (a friend of Noah Kagan)
- Damon Oldcorn / M / London, UK (a friend of Joan Lockwood)
- Scott Stevens / 35 / M / Greer, SC
- Arianna O’Dell / F / Seattle, WA (a friend of Andru Edwards)
- Peter Winick / 41 / M / NYC, NY (a friend of Mark Goulston)

You can add them to your network of trusted friends by visiting
http://vark.com/friends.
Then you’ll be connected to their friends too for asking and answering
questions!

Thanks,
- Aardvark

  • John

    …and you’re then publishing them online? But yes, that’s poor.

  • http://al.bsharah.com Al Bsharah

    Awful. Privacy is such a nightmare these days…take a look at what ZipRealty did to me a couple months ago (hint, some random person had full access to my password):

    http://al.bsharah.com/post/2009/09/01/Security-Your-On-Line-Identity-and-ZipRealtys-Poor-Example.aspx

    There’s got to be a better way…

    (By the way, aren’t you making it worse by re-posting that private information publically?)

    Cheers,
    Al

  • http://www.rxdxt.com richard titus

    I’m cancelling my account immed. Holy #$&(*$%!!!

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