But try http://www.zoominfo.com/. These guys have better info usually.

What worries me a lot about all of these type of services is that they are so easy use and pick up a lot of info for no cost. For example, say you are looking for a job. With the info you provide on a typical resume (CV in rest of world), someone in the company can find your age easily.

With age discrimination rampant in many industries, including the corporate IT world, it is easy to discriminate against anyone you want without even having to bring them in for an interview.

I think birth dates should have to be removed from all public accessible data bases.

In our real world, it might get pretty creepy to have your personal info available through a service like this.

The essential rule is to never put your personal data onto the Net unless you really know what you’re doing. Then you should have no reason to be scared of this..

Yes, The Web is the Eye, not of God but of Earth, the Eye that sees and the Eye that recalls, a very Public Eye in fact !

Above all, social networking seems to have landed on Planet Web at the very time stress of anonymity was ready to strike back with the relief of nudity, that is, identity. “I am what I am” is fine in a private living room, in an auditorium, at a chat with one’s psy, but dangerous on the Web.

In fact, two dangers, one is ourself, the other is out there :

1- Ourself, that is the relation between our comments and our identity. That should in fact not be a problem for any identity which follows a coherent and responsible thought, and speech ;

2- Out there, that involves relation between identity and privacy, snail/email addresses, phone numbers, factual data as a whole.

It does remain a challenge to comply to both freedom/responsibility of one’s given identity and awareness of omitting private data. One evening on the Web, for instance, a few drinks and/or tiredness, an appealing chat, “What’s your phone number, Mike?” … that’s when you have to think twice!