| In today's day and age, your privacy is always at risk, sometimes more than you'll ever know. The credit reporting agencies routinely sell your NAME and PERSONAL INFORMATION to any sales company willing to pay for it. If you live in the U.S., below is a phone number they don't want you to have! Call this number to opt-out from this practice. Once call gets you off every credit reporting agency for sale list. Take this opportunity to stand up for your privacy that that of your family. This Opt Out method is free and totally automated. Call 1-888-5OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688). Next on the list... You have an unlisted number…so everything is private, right? Would you be alarmed to know that even when you're “unlisted”, a perfect stranger can look you up online, see your address, birth date, past addresses, and even see a photo of your home, down to the detail of your child’s play set out in the back yard? Alarmed yet? You should be. Take a look at this website: www.zabasearch.com. Simply plug your name in, and you're likely to be surprised, and probably a bit distressed to see all the information that's readily available online. How could this happen? Easy. Virtually every major change in your life is recorded somewhere in a government document. When you're born, a birth certificate is issued. When you obtain a driver's license, get married, buy a house, file a lawsuit – all of these events are recorded in public documents easily available to you and to others. Government records are intentionally public in order to enable citizens to monitor the government and to ensure accountability in our society. The challenge is to balance the public’s right to information with the individual's right to privacy. The two main federal privacy laws are the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act, but they apply only to federal government agencies. And they almost seem to conflict with each other, as the Privacy Act deals with keeping government records about an individual confidential, while the Freedom of Information Act is commonly used to pry open government files. But these laws are attempts to balance the public's right to know…against the rights of an individual to retain their own privacy. So how can you get removed from the ZabaSearch site? In order to create, edit, or block your record and/or to add a ZabaLink, all for free, you must make that request in writing and mail it to: ZabaTools, P.O. Box 45210 Omaha, NE 68145. You must include: 1. E-mail address 2. Full name including middle initial 3. Address of the record you wish to create, edit or delete 4. Phone number you wish to have removed 5. Year of birth. 6. Specify if you are requesting to create, edit or delete a record or if you want to add a ZabaLink or URL to your record. 7. Sign and date your request Do yourself a favor, and take just a minute right now to get yourself removed from this list – then forward this article to your friends and family as well.
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