Blockshopper.com

Blockshopper firmly asserts its right to publish the details of a real estate transaction involving my current co-op that doesn't represent an outright sale, but the results of a divorce settlement. For some unfortunate reason, this information is now near the top of any Google search of my name, obscuring my professional information. When I complained to Blockshopper about publishing this misleading information in a way that embarrasses me, they told me to take a hike. Is anyone doing anything to stop them?

I searched my name and was quite unhappy to discover my name, address, map of how to get to my house and how much I purchased my house for all on the same website, Blockshopper. I contacted the company to please remove me from the list and they told me they would be unable to as it is a matter of public record. We need to shut them down.

This site Blockshopper.com should be shut down. It has too much info, even a map and picture of my house.

My complaint is the same as everyone's; my name and address published for the world to see and no option to opt out like most sites. When laws were enacted about "publicly accessible information", we were not living in the internet age. I refuse to believe those laws wouldn't have been modified to include an opt-out feature for anyone who respectfully requests it, since the distribution is far greater than it was before the web.

The owner is blatant about what his goal is. Here's an excerpt from Forbes about his future plans to raise capital for his next endeavor: "Timpone wants to use the money to start publishing stories based on parking ticket, divorce and bankruptcy records." I feel like there is nothing we can do since the law is on their side for now.

This has crossed the line. Scarlett, who I am sure is not the real name, has refused to take my info. Typing my name in Google should not give that much info, anyone needing to steal my identity can do so easily now. A class action lawsuit should start and the government and officials should be made aware.

I recently discovered that a quick Google search of my name reveals my home address listed at Blockshopper.com. Once on the site, clicking my address will show a Google "street view" image of my house with directions on how to get there! I am extremely concerned about this. I work in child welfare with parents who are often not happy with actions taken to protect their children. Any one of them could search my name, find my house, and seek to do harm to me and my family!

I contacted Blockshopper, but they refused to remove my information. There is no reason for my name to be displayed. Info about my address and home without identifying me as the owner or mentioning me anywhere on the site is acceptable. I have contacted a private attorney to get legal help. Please get Blockshopper to remove my name!

BlockShopper will not grant requests to opt out of their listings. The only way to stop them is to change the U.S. law. Please contact your congressmen/congresswomen, senators. Very Important: Contact Senator Leahy of VT, who is working on privacy legislation. Put BlockShopper.com in subject line.

Blockshopper needs to be shutdown. Period. This is an absolutely outrageous website that exposes everyone and claims the info is from public records so they will not modify or remove it from their website. I do not see property address, family members, date of sale and other personal details of their management team and their families on this website. Call your local politician to help shut this down now!

You are posting my name and personal address without my permission on a public website putting me and my family at risk. I am asking you to remove any information regarding me which puts me at risk for identity theft.

I have requested several times for blockshopper.com to allow me to opt out of their site/database. I have never authorized the release of my personal information to them or their affiliates and yet they have posted my home address, the names of all who live with me, a map to my home, and an array of other personal information.

I value my privacy and they have no right to collect, amass, make true or false associations about me and post my information for the world to see if one swift type of my name. There are literally hundreds of complaints on the internet, just like my complaint to you. We need an advocate on how to limit the prolific display of personal information on the internet.

This website has posted my name and personal address without my permission on a public website with my private financial information. I have sent them a cease and desist letter. They are putting me and my family at risk for ID theft and other criminal actions.

When a search is done on Google with my name, it shows up with a Blockshopper link. The link displays my home address. Due to the uniqueness of my name, it shows up on Google. In spite of my repeated request to Blockshopper, they don't remove my name. I have told them I have nothing against listing the selling/buying price but to please remove my name from the website. This is causing us sleepless night due to endangerment to our family. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

They are making money off us. Every time someone clicks on their "news" about us, they make a little from advertising. They are taking advantage of the 1st amendment protection of the press to basically profit off our names, all the while putting us in danger if anyone ever wanted to find us. Write the managers a letter to tell them what you think. They get their info from the county records. You should talk to your register of deeds to get them to require, as a condition of use, that people not post the information they find onto the internet. Make these guys actually spend their time at city hall to collect the info.

I have submitted complaints against this company with every state rep in my state and a few others. I have submitted a complaint with the IL Attorney General and nothing. I, too, fear for my family's safety. I work in a bank and deal with escalated customer issues, so you can imagine I am not exactly popular and people have posted my name and work email address online. When you search my name, the first 2 sites that come up are information regarding my name and bank. The next is Blockshopper information with a map to my home.

I have repeatedly requested Scarlett at Blockshoppers to remove my name from their listing. They have not given me any answer. They list my home address and full name posted on the Internet, available to anyone who does a Google search of their name. We fear for ourselves and our children's safety. They refused to remove our name from their listing. Please help us.

If everybody in America is upset, why does the goverment don't do anything about it? It is time to take action and not complaints. I am into politics. I will send info to a higher level. Please shut them down, or this will end very badly. Some people are crazy, and this freak Brian ** is exposing people to a very dangerous world. There is another freak named Naveen **, who owns 75% of people searches. The number one is Intelius, US Search. White pages, etc. They both need to be shut down. I hope this helps. They think people is stupid, but they are not.

Thank you for previous post re-contacting state commissioner or congressman. I will do same in NY State. Blockshopper completely ignores many people's requests for privacy concerns in regards to publishing exact home addresses & rest of info and makes people living in fear waiting for something bad to happen based on personal situations (stalkers, threats of any kind, etc). I really hope one day they will be prosecuted for ignoring all of the above.

I e-mailed BlockShopper.com many times requesting the removal of my personal records from BlockShopper.com. However, they refused. After so many attempts, I decided to contact my Congressman's office and filed a complaint about BlockShopper.com. I am waiting for the Congressman's response. I am planning to contact my Senator's office and escalate to that level. I would suggest to everyone that is involved with BlockShopper.com to do the same thing by contacting your Congressman and Senators and build up the pressure to shut down this BlockShopper.com scheme. This is very unprofessional website and to have this go on would impact and create future problems.

I have repeatedly requested Scarlett at Blockshoppers remove my name from their listing. They have refused even though I have cited information from the FTC requiring them to give individuals the option to opt out of having their home address posted on the internet available to anyone who does a Google search of their name. My husband and I are working on a controversial documentary that we expect will make certain religious extremists unhappy with what we have to say. I explained that I don't want a Google search to turn up our home address. We fear for our and our children's safety. They refused to remove our name from their listing. Please help us.

The Blockshopper.com is refusing to remove my personal information from their websites. I have security concerns which is related to my estranged father to learn where I live. This is not a threat that police can help with however, company is making this information available for anyone who wants to know where I live.

Scarlett ** is a dirtbag. Don't bother emailing her to remove your name; she'll just waste your time. What a disgusting company. I see that their daily revenue as a whole is worth $128.00.

They are listing my name without my permission. The spokesperson for them is one Scarlett ****. She advised me that all information is public via the county. I told her to remove my name and that if she wants to provide my information to anyone, she has to point them to my county and they can personally retrieve it with no grief from me.

Blockshopper is posting every possible detail about me to anyone with a Google news feed, to one of my companies, or colleges. Please shut this website down. Now, everyone at your firm with a Google feed on the firm's activies (via the name), gets your real estate transactions, as they happen. It is not only embarrassing, but also somewhat threatening to job security at this time. Not to mention, all the other potential consequences listed below.

I asked BlockShopper to remove our information from their website. They replied: "BlockShopper publishes public records. Property ownership and sales information is listed publicly in multiple places on the internet and in other publications. We get our data from the county-- it is the public record. It's our goal to be accurate and consistent, so we don't simply edit the public record on any request."

Not a complaint, but a "review". I love that Blockshopper lists the name, address and amount paid for homes of people in the areas they cover. It is so much easier than going to the recorders office myself and looking up this information (which I can do for free for every home in America). I can look to see if my neighbors rent or own and the date and purchase price of their homes. Best of all, when I make a bid on a home for sale, I can look at the price a home was purchased for and get an idea of how much equity the homeowner has. Way to go Blockshopper! Love you guys!

I agree with all of your comments. This is not only a serious invasion of privacy, it is a very serious safety issue. Will it take someone being injured (in addition to those already being stalked and harassed) for this site to be held accountable? Those in the legal profession and government should take note of this website. As mentioned by others, this is the one site which does not abide by any privacy laws. A class action suit is definitely a terrific start. Any sponsors for this website should also be encouraged to steer clear. If anyone has suggestions on who should be contacted to ensure our private information is not exposed in such a serious way, please post this information for us. Thank you!

I have a home for sale in Philadelphia. This website has posted all of my personal information, in addition to incorrect information about the home for sale. I have contacted them, but I suspect this will not work. All of the similar consumer affairs complaints I see about this site, point toward no action being taken by the site. This is unethical, and should be stopped.

All of our personal information (i.e., home address, name, value of our home, sq. footage, etc. ) is made public by this awful website who have absolutely no regard for people's confidentiality. I contacted them and requested that they remove our information from their data base. She was quick to tell me that they would not & have every right to make my information public as they had retained my information from public websites (but refused to elaborate).

I hate this website. I really do. This Brian Timpone needs jail time. Or, somebody maybe end it up getting hurt because many people are very upset. The government is aware of this but they need to do something very soon. Otherwise, more enemies are on his way. We are going to make this public on TV and radios in all the states that he works. If I were in his shoes, I will be very scared, because people are crazy and you don't know what reaction people can have. So please, shut down this website. We are asking you for help. Please do this soon. Thanks.

They are publishing my home address, its location, and all of my personal information when my name was googled. I have done the same as all the others by contacting Scarlett. I asked her nicely to remove my name and got the same answer that they will not as it is public information. I have asked other websites to remove information before and they have done so with no problems. I do feel that a class action lawsuit is in order to stop these people and shut down their site. Someone from an Internet chat room found my house, said they were painters, and tried to break in. I had to call police.

Please shut this website down before it gets worse. This man, the owner, Brian **, is a crazy man. He thinks people like his website, but everybody hates it. Americans hate him and he has many enemies, but he doesn't care. We are a group of people in L.A who are lawyers, doctors, consuls and we are going to talk to the government so he can shut this website down in the next couple of weeks. This needs to have justice. I have never seen anything like this in another country. This is dangerous and we need to stop this.

This man Brian ** should be in jail. This man is exposing Americans to many things, making our privacy public to the world. Everybody has enemies, and this is nasty--what he is doing. Just because he is a lawyer, he thinks he can do this. Well probably, he failed to be a lawyer, and he is angry at the world. That's why he wants others to feel like him--like a bug.

I feel sorry for him and his wife ** and his 3 kids. This family should be deported from this country; they are toxic to Americans. Please, Mr. President Barack Obama, take justice to this crazy man Brian ** and the other 2 more who are working with him. I think hell will be the best place for him.

He lives in Chicago, and he doesn't make his address public. But everybody else needs to deal with this mental man. He needs help. I am a politic, and I will do my best to help everybody who is in this bad place. I will shut his game off. Thank you, America.

Blockshopper is a site that posts all people's information online for all to see without the person's consent. They include the homeowner's full name, date on which the property was bought and a sale price. I contacted the site 5 times arguing back and forth to be removed from their website. I have a stalker who found me again recently (thanks to them) and I have explained the situation to them. They asked for proof such as Order of Protection to be scanned and emailed to them. This is outrageous, I shouldn't have to have an order of protection to be removed from that website. I hope they burn in hell, what a disgrace!

I too asked Blockshopper.com to remove my housing information from their site. Before their existence, someone couldn't just Google me, and find my home and a map to the front door! They refused. I've sent the request in writing and called their office, and they keep saying "its public records". True, but they also have the ability to remove the tags that allow search engines to pick up the information or better yet, they should not have you in their database if you've requested to be removed. I also took them to the Better Business Bureau (BBB), but they were totally useless. This must be corrected. I am sure a privacy law is being violated, if they blatantly refuse to honor requests.

Blockshopper.com had someone with a similarly spelled name with mine purchase a property in the same state. They then pulled my personal information from my LinkedIn page to build a profile for all to see. When I asked to be removed, as I am not the same person, I was told that personal information was extracted from public records. This is not true, since I am not the owner of the record. They continued to refuse my request and now do not even respond to my e-mails. Do I have a legal claim here?

Blockshopper website has all personal and family information listed. It is impossible to remove it since the contact person, Scarlet, tells me that it is public information. If I purchase a house, at a certain price, at a certain date, it doesn't mean that everybody with a click of a button can easily access this information. It should be a choice to share my personal information with others. We all heard about identity theft; however, our information is public already and nobody does anything about it.

Anybody and everybody can find out our personal information like name, last name, age, current address, old address, when did we buy a house, how much we paid for, phone number etc. Please, remove my family's information. It should be our right to share it with others. The contact people the sites have (like Scarlet) are not helpful and should not be in that position to deal with customers.

They have my personal information online, making it accessible to anyone - my name, last name, address, home information. Just google my name and you will see my name, home address, how much I paid for my house, date when I bought it, etc. I know it is public information, but I didn't authorize them to make it accessible online.

I asked to have my personal information removed from this website and was denied. Just because this information is "public record" does not mean that everyone wants this information advertised on blockshopper.com.

Just googling someone's name should not be sufficient to find out their home address, how much their house is worth, and who their neighbors are. People should be able to opt out of public searches.

I actually just did a search for Scarlett ** on Block Shopper and her home address and her personal information is not being displayed. Why is that? According to Scarlett, everything she posts is public record so her posting should be included as well. Why the exception? If a person requests their information be removed, it should be removed.

Why is it legal for a company to put everyone's personal information onto a website such as theirs? It is pathetic that we live in a country that allows this. I have seen all the complaints listed on Consumer Affairs about this company. Why has nothing been done?

I have contacted Scarlett about removing my information and she either does not reply or says that she will, but she never does. This has got to stop. The have information like job titles and photographs of myself and my wife, along with area photos of my house. This is ridiculous.

Our clients name, picture, linkedin website was all posted on this website with her home address and her personal information. We never advertise our clients/sellers name online, and she was very upset, just as we are since we never advertise without getting written permission. We requested the website/article to be taken down , but it was refused by Scarlett Simpson. This website creates a danger for the privacy of clients/sellers and their family.

This website is illegally advertising the name and addresses of the folks who are buying and selling homes. What they are doing is the equivalent of any financial website showing the details of every person who buy and sell a stock on a given day. It is a true invasion of privacy.

I have contacted Scarlett ** via email at ** on 7/11/2011, requesting that they remove my name from their site because of a very serious stalking issue. I was told they can't. On 7/19/2011, I emailed BlockShopper COO Eddie Weinhaus at ** to make the same request that my name will be removed from this false public records site. After a few email correspondence, I was sent to Scarlett ** again. I explained to both of these people, that I have moved across the county to make it harder for that stalker to find me. I am very concerned for my and my family's safety since this site makes it too easy to locate me. A similar site, Spokeo, removed me. I want BlockShopper to do the same. They are not a county or federal site, I do not feel that they should be allowed to post my whereabouts on their site.Please help me. Thank you. I do not want telephone calls, please.

This company is using information they are extracting from the county tax office to list people's private information in a public database while providing easy Google and other search engine searches to give this information. In other words, someone can search my name and my personal information pops up in Google, including my address, the value of my home, etc. This is not lawful and is not in the best of interest of citizen's privacy and the right to remain anonymous, along with the cost and location of their homes remaining anonymous.

This is a predator's playground and they should be put to a halt immediately and sued for doing this to so many people. I asked nicely to have my name removed for security reasons (I have a very scary ex I do not want to find me), and I was told they cannot remove my information without legal papers. I know this is not true. Every other site I've requested that they remove my information (e.g., **.com) has done so immediately with no hassles. These people should be punished by the strictest laws possible. They know what they are doing is wrong.

This is a blatant disregard for safety under the guise of public information. Unwanted individuals coming to my home.

Company has been informed on multiple occasions to remove personal information including my home address from their website due to personal safety issues concerning a stalker. The company continually ignores requests. I have already had to move to a new state because of this person at great personal and financial expense. I will now again be forced to move, incurring significant financial loss resulting from declining value, upwards of $40,000 on my new home due to the actions of their website.

Blockshopper publishes everyone's name, address when they purchase or sell real estate along with personal information such as employer, work. It is an invasion of privacy. I have called them and emailed them many times and have been told this is public information. This needs to be dealt with and would like to know what Consumer Affairs is doing to address the situations since there are many complaints over years. What is your response CA? Get working on it. Why we have no rights to privacy - living in the US is just ridiculous, so this website and their devious owners can profit off our pain is unacceptable. It encourages identity theft and stalking. Please address the situation. We'd like to hear from you! Emotional. Psychological and physical stress.

This is a negative evil website because this man Brian **** uses your name, address, a map of location and what you pay for your property when you buy it from him. To sell another's property, this man needs to pay all the people's names that he is using because I am victim too. I did not allow him to use my name for any kind of business.

This man needs to be behind jail and pay all the people he has been using. Please get justice with this man. It will not surprise me that he doesn't even live in the United States because he is afraid of all of his enemies. He has a wife named Patricia and 3 children. Why is this man doing this to the rich and millionaires? He only respects famous and political people. He thinks that he is smart but I feel sorry for him because he is crazy. Thanks. I hope my information can be of help to get justice soon.

This is a toxic website for all Americans. Please do something about it. All Americans are very upset about this please read the website. I hate blockshopper.com. Thank you.

Though Jones Day and their Chicago Law firm filed suit against Blockshopper.com and this Blockshopper.com website Owners: Timothy Landon, Brian Timpone & Edward Weinhaus about trademark infringement, the law firm was also victimized by Blockshopper.com by having their home addresses with their full names published and accessible in Blockshopper.com.

Numerous concerns have been expressed by private citizens, who in their joy of becoming homeowners were published on that unscrupulous website along with their addresses and real estate information, creating easy access to their information and positioning them to be victims of crime. It seems clear that the Blockshopper.com business model includes the unethical use of people's information for their own business profits and contributes to the crime opportunities and the rise in crime against US homeowners.

Do these website business owners have an ethical responsibility to the US homeowners not to publish full names of the real estate information? Many people would agree. Do they have a legal obligation? The websites owners said they don't and will not remove homeowners' information (even just names) when requested. For the sake President Obama's success of stimulating the economy and homeownership, it is hoped that these website owners have a legal responsibility to remove when requested people's information from their website. Can the legal entities that be or the local, state, and/or federal government help citizens with these grave concerns?

My name, address and price paid for home are available on their company website. I contacted the company by email since they do not return calls. They said it was their right to have the information on their website. I feel it violates my right to privacy and want it removed.

Scarlett ** very curtly answered my request to remove my information from her website, saying that it is public information. But this very personal information is the first thing that comes up when people search my name. Perhaps those of us who have been damaged by Blockshopper should get together to file a class action lawsuit.

I think that it is such a disgrace for your public records to be free and at hand of all sorts of people. I had an incident where someone came to my house looking for someone, all because they googled my name to see where I lived. Just as another consumer stated, if I did not opt to have my phone number and address listed, why would I want my home address listed? All a person needs to know is your name, google you and you can end up dead from your personal as they call it public records being listed. The only people that should have access to your personal information is your family and the law. This is insane!

This website has published all my information! How much I bought my house for, when, my full address, everything! I called and emailed them but they totally refuse to remove it! Anyone can find me. I fear for the safety of my little children. How can someone just decide to publish my information without my consent?

This site has pulled information given to LinkedIn and has violated the user policy by reproducing and posting information given to LinkedIn. They have re-posted employment information and linked my name to that, along with address information.

I just recently came upon this website Blockshopper.com. I had googled my name and city and came upon my full name and address listed. I do not have my name and address published in the phone book. And I do not wish to have that information displayed for all the public due to the profession I am in. I have contacted Scarlette ** and Robert via email and they were absolutely no help. I researched this company and saw many individuals with complaints and lawsuits. I'd like to know how I can be deleted from their website now, as soon as possible. Please help. My family is in jeopardy to this website.

It is horrifying that anyone can research my name and find out my exact address and price I paid for my house. I try to remain private as I have had problems in the past with security. I remain unlisted, I set all my accounts to the utmost privacy and yet, all my information is blasted to the world. Although from public records, surely this must be an invasion of privacy.

A friend discovered my family's listing on this site. Our neighborhood is crime-ridden due to gentrification and the last thing I would ever do is publish our full names, addresses, tax information and how much we paid. Who's business is that?! Certainly not everyone online! I complained to Scarlett ** and she said there are plenty of sites that do this and they aren't removing anyone's names as mentioned on their site. I explained I felt for my family's safety and privacy but she obviously didn't care.

Has anyone verified whether what BlockShopper is doing is violating the "Right to Publicity" laws? That is the right to control or profit from the use of your name or likeness. Celebrities use this law to prevent businesses from putting their name/image on merchandise without their permission and also to earn royalties whenever their name/picture is used. **

Blockshopper.com claims to use public information, but every home owner in the city of coverage is not listed. I've done my research. My parents' name aren't linked to Blockshopper's at all but mine is. If they want to publicize information that a person would normally have to get from county records, that's fine. But to be thorough and fair, they should check to see if the person they are about to post has been a victim of some kind of criminal act. I have been and so have many others. Now the person who tried to murder me only has to google my maiden name and he has access to my address and new name.

I did not purchase my home with my new name. Blockshopper should also check to see if someone is unlisted. I am. This blatant display of information can cause someone their life. I also requested my information be removed or *** out to some point. I was refused and told to show proof of the crimes against me. That is unacceptable. If the company uses public info, they should do research as well to ensure safety. A family member of mine would be murder. I was on my door step as I was coming home from work.

Blockshopper.com uses county recorder data to very prominently and publicly display homeowners' addresses and purchase prices on the web. When I contacted ** to request my and my wife's names be removed, I received the curt reply that this is public information and they are allowed to display it. This is appalling and unacceptable. Aside from the very obvious invasion of privacy, this creates danger for single women, the elderly, public figures and other targets. We received threats from crazy former neighbors who now can find us with click of a mouse.

They refuse to remove my name from their site. So, I set up a Facebook page called "remove my name from blockshopper.com".

My address and the amount we paid for our house come up on Google when my name is searched. I feel this is an invasion of privacy.

I usually Google my name to see what comes up, especially any information that is personal. To my realization all of my personal information comes up in the second page of my name search. I am mostly scared for my safety since I'm a big blogger.

I feel like my privacy has been tainted by this website that proclaims that they are in the 'right' and that it's public record. I've asked them to use my initials but this Scarlett ** said that it was their right and duty to inform the public of my information. Makes me think that I shouldn't have bought a house because that's what got my address online. I would love to be able to participate in any class action lawsuit against them if possible since they refuse to remove me from the internet.

They are erroneously listing my wife as a previous owner of property. She was never part of the transaction, and we weren't even married at the time of my ownership or sale. By listing her, the company is invading our privacy by publishing information that is inaccurate. She and I are being stalked online, and this is making it much more difficult to avoid this person.

My address and escrow history, via Blockshopper, have been creeping up my list (when I goggle my name) and my address is now first on the list. Their response is that it is public record. I understand that it is public record; what I keep asking them is how that obscure public record got listed so high on my page! No response to that question. This is a true safety risk for my family. Given the number of similar complaints, I hope something is done soon. Does anyone know of further recourse?

It is completely inappropriate and potentially dangerous to my family to have my address, a picture of my house, and my personal escrow history listed at the top of a Google search. It is also embarrassing as is puts my professional affiliations so much lower. This is truly a security breach.

My name, address and amount I paid for my house is available for anyone to see on this site. I have requested they remove my name and Scarlett ** responded that this is public information. I am aware of that, but to find out where someone lives just by searching for their name is totally irresponsible and could cost a life, or at the very least, identity theft. Please stop them from making this information so readily available.

I, too, asked Scarlett to remove our information since we are not listed in the phone book. She refused to remove the information. Funny how she does not give us her real name, and her information is not on the website! Foul! Thank you, Scarlett, for making criminals have easy access to our information. You are liable!

Over the past month I have discovered through two of my patients that my home address is listed with this website. This is outrageous. No one from this company contacted me to get my permission to publish my name and address. I'm a psychologist, and publishing my home address is a boundary violation that compromises my integrity and work as a psychotherapist. It also could potentially endanger my life. Interferes with my work by providing unnecessary information about myself to my patients, presents risk for stalking, calling me by tracing my address to phone number, potential threat to my safety.

I googled my name and was horrified to find my address, pictures of my home and other information on Blockshopper. I have always taken the appropriate steps to avoid my information becoming public because of safety concerns. I cannot believe that this is allowed with all the identity theft and horrible crimes committed out there. This company and any others like it, need to be stopped. Safety of citizens should be a major concern.

It has been brought to my attention that when my name is Googled, my full address is the first entry listed on the web site provided by BlockShopper. I contacted Scarlett S. to request that my name be removed and this is her full and only response: "BlockShopper publishes public records. Property ownership and sales information is listed publicly in multiple places on the internet and in other publications. We get our data from the county-- it is the public record. It's our goal to be accurate and consistent, so we don't simply edit the public record on any request."

In light of this information, I am in a state of fear of my personal safety at this time because of the fact that anyone I don't want to know where I live can easily find out and harass, solicit, or stalk me at will. I'm a single female and I really don't feel comfortable with my information exposed so freely.

Blockshopper has a site for anyone to find you by your name or address by Googling it. When asked to remove my information, they stated that they could not. I have explained that with domestic violence in my past that this leaves me feeling that my safety has been compromised.

This company has all of my addresses listed on their website. When anyone, including stalkers, google my name, it can be readily found on their website. I asked them to remove it from their website and they told me when I have it removed from the county website, that's when they will remove it. People who are violent who I didn't want to know my address has found my information on their website.

This company unnecessarily lists your name and address. Your information is easily found using a name search in any search engine. Please join my Facebook page, Block Blockshopper.com to protest their practices to their advertisers.

I requested my name to be removed from the internet; they refused, said it is public record. Also the information they are listing is incorrect, and I am being contacted by bill collectors after my ex-husband. Are there no laws to protect our privacy and identity anymore? How can they put all this private info out on the internet for the world to have access to? As others have complained, I am also concerned for my safety.

I entered my full name on the google search engine and the second website available had my full name with my full address, as well as how much I paid for my house (this was all in the web link for Blockshopper.com)! I am greatly concerned for my safety because I am a clinical therapist at a mental health hospital and I work with severely mentally ill patients who could google my name and have access to where I live. I contacted a representative at Blockshopper.com named Scarlett asking my full name be taken off of their website. She responded back promptly saying that "the public needs to know who is buying houses" and refused to take my name off.

After researching more into this company, I found out that they are a for-profit business. So this means they are making a profit by putting homeowners in danger, be it by identity theft, stalking, or who knows what else through the exploitation of our personal information. Knowing that my full name, address, as well as the financial institution who sold me my home loan, is so easily accessible through the google search engine is causing me, and I'm sure many other homeowners, much stress. I think that it is extremely unnecessary to have my full name attached with my address and how much my house is worth. Something needs to be done so that law abiding, responsible homeowners are not being taken advantage of and whose safety is put in danger so some website company can make a quick buck! !

These people are publishing my name and address on the internet. It's coming up very early in a Google search. I have gone to great pains to stay as anonymous as possible on the internet. I belong to no social networking sites, except Linkedin, and there my address is not accessible unless I permit it, and I do not. They adamantly refused to remove my name and address from their site. These are despicable people and they need to be shut down.

This service published private information from a recent home purchase. My address, profession, where I went to school, how much I paid for the house were all available to potentially threatening ex-patients. I requested to be removed from their listing, citing the risks to my life. This data cannot be obtained from Google or other search engines; yet they say it is a public domain. Google does list the multiple complaints against this parasitic company.

This has increased risk to my family against psychiatric and drug dependent patients.

If you google my name, you can see my home address and how much I paid for my house. There is no way to contact these people and from reading others' complaints, it seems as though that they're not removing their private information when asked to do so. My privacy and safety are at risk!

My name, along with address is posted to this site. I requested that my name be removed. Scarlett refused, claiming it was public information. It's my name, I don't want it there. Respect my request please, don't abuse my privacy. I can't think of one good reason to post my name with my address. Only negative ones see below.

I was as mortified as all of the others who have sent you their comments when I found that a simple Google search returned information about my newly purchased home. I am a professor at a local university, and a former prosecutor. I am concerned for my privacy and safety. While this information is "public" according to certain definitions, they should not be allowed to post it in this manner.

They have my information posted to where I live, how much I bought my apartment for. I am really afraid that someone who wants to harm me can just Google my info and present him/herself here so easily. Years ago my boyfriend's insane boyfriend went to jail for assault, rape and drug charges and he mentioned that when he gets out that he'd "kill" all of her friends and family.

Blockshopper has crossed the line between freedom of information, privacy and consumer protection. I was alarmed to learn that a simple web search on Google.com would yield my name, home address and all the house statistics. While I recognize this is public information, no other web search engine, organization, indexes and uses data in this way. I understand the need to keep home price statistics in the public domain, but there is no need to associate your name with it in this manner. I have requested that this for-profit company remove my name from its database and they have refused. Please tell me what recourse I have.

As a single woman and a victim of identity theft, I politely requested Scarlett ** of Blockshopper to delete my name from the site. I don't care if the property info is there as in zillow. But she flatly refused saying the information is public. I believe the laws have to change and my information should not be on these for profit sites. They are not governmental and have no real right to publish my personal information. I would like to join a class action suit if possible. Any for profit site should be required to have an opt out feature.

As everyone else has stated, this is a gross invasion of privacy. I will boycott any advertisers that I see on the Blockshopper website. That is the only way I can make an impact. However, if anyone is interested in a class action suit, count me in.

I searched my name on Google and on the first row were my name and my husband's with our personal address. I feel completely violated by these internet pirates. I sent them an e-mail asking them to remove our names from their website. Scarlett's answer: "BlockShopper publishes public records. Property ownership and sales information is listed publicly in multiple places on the internet and in other publications. We get our data from the county - It is the public record. It's our goal to be accurate and consistent, so we don't simply edit the public record on any request." This is abusive, intrusive behavior. Somebody has to stop these irresponsible parasites. Our privacy and safety has been compromised by these people. I filed a complaint with the FTC today. If a class action lawsuit is in progress to get these people, I am very interested.

This is amazing. No action has been taken after over a year of complaints. Unable to opt out even after contacting them. How is this legal? It is a complete violation of my privacy and unsanctioned distribution of highly sensitive information.

This company is posting private information that can be searched on the web. My name and my home address! This has to stop! Please do something! My privacy has been violated.

Suddenly my name shows up on all Google "name search" by all kinds of strangers. My family members all over the globe reported this. I have reported a healthcare worker who harmed a patient to the state authority and this person is a risk for our family. Our property addresses should not be public to protect us from stalkers and people who hate us or are racists. I wrote to same mysterious "Scarlet **". I was unable to find her property address on "block shopper" to send the legal papers. This is a gross disregard of personal information on Google search. We looked up the owners; most are just greedy University Of Chicago private business owners and game players with other people's lives (home & family). The state and federal law must step in as these large private business owners and their children now do not have any regard for the "common" person. Stop them.Try to "google" the founders and Scarlet ** (fake name?) and their properties do not show up on "BlockShopper". How come?

As soon as I Google my name, my entire address come up and how much I paid for my house. Is this not a privacy issue? I have contacted several people at this company. Everyone is rude. Is anyone filing a lawsuit against this company? Any attorneys out there?

If my name is Googled, Blockshopper.com is one of the top links where they display my home, how much I paid for my home, my spouse's name, etc. I am aware that my home purchase information is a matter of public record. However I do not feel Google and Blockshopper have the right to make the information apparent on the Internet. This information could be misused and I feel it is horribly invasive of my privacy.

I am seeking new employment. It is becoming common practice for Human Resources departments to do searches on people. What my house looks like, how wealthy am I, and whether I am married are not questions that are illegal to ask. So this information should not be posted by Blockshopper without prior consent from me.

Blockshopper Las Vegas has all my personal info on Google search regarding my above property (not my home address). They listed the above address saying "claim this property", but I am the owner and it is not for sale. If you Google search my name, you will see what they are doing. How can they list my property? I emailed them but no response. Please help!

This site publishes my name and home address. I have concerns for my personal safety. I explained my situation, and asked to have my address removed. I received a form letter saying that it's public information, so they have a right to publish it. I disagree. I feel that I have a right to opt out.

I am another victim of Blockshopper. Along with the many others, they have put my life in great and imminent danger as a single woman living alone by posting my address and pictures of my home, cars, and other private information about me on Google. What legally can be done? How can we stop this abusive profiteering on the privacy of vulnerable people and putting them in harm's way? I have been stalked in the past by a violent ex; now he can again. I just found this on Google and am terrified! This caused fear, loss of sleep--endless tort grievances, cost of getting a wall of security built, seeing a psychiatrist about my fears, etc.

They have posted my personal information and I want it off their website. I have a tenant who found my information on their website and did physical damage to my property. I asked Scarlette nicely to please remove my info and she refused saying it was public information. I should be able to opt out of their postings for security reasons.

I was horrified when I noticed that my personal information on this site. As a victim of cyber stalking, I begged ** to please remove my information from the site. She responded by saying that if I send her a police report they would "amend" my listing and this is public information. While I am completely aware of that, sites like this make it easier for criminals to do harm to innocent people. I am mortified! I just sent her the following message:

**, I hope you are never a victim of a violent crime, abuse or stalking. I also hope that you, nor no one you love or care about ever has to experience what I have gone through and continuing to endure. I hope you can sleep safely at night and not ever have to worry about someone showing up at your doorstep because they know exactly where to find you.

She was no help at all and supplied me with cut and paste responses from their FAQ. I suppose they must get this all the time. I will have my attorney send the police report so they can "amend my listing." I just hope and pray that no one falls victim to a crime because they were able to access this public information from this site.

I was checking information from my credit report that was not accurate and when I googled my name, it came up on the Blockshopper Phoenix website. They have both my husband and my name and all my neighbors! Here I am trying to do everything I can to protect my credit and my safety and they have everything except my social security number and children's names!

I contacted Blockshopper (Scarlett **) and asked her to remove our name and address from her site, because of the sensitive nature of one of our careers. She just responded with the fact they are using public info. From what I've read, that is their pat answer and they are making money from using our information, besides putting us at further risk.

I googled my wife's name. On the first page of the Google search appeared both my name and my wife's name, our address, how much we paid for our property, and it indicated that we are in foreclosure. This got me really worried, so I called my lender. There was no problem and all accounts were current. What was more worrisome was the fact that Blockshopper made my wife's information so prevalent on Google search. I am concerned for both of our safety, privacy and reputation.

We live in a high crime neighborhood; our work brings us in contact with people and groups who pose a security risk to us. When I politely asked Blockshopper to remove our information they refused. Not only is the information on this site not accurate for their potential consumer, they also put citizens at risk by refusing to have an opt out option which is part of any ethical internet business. If a class action lawsuit is filled against this company, you can count us in.

My LinkedIn job info was combined with the sale of my home and made into a "Press Release" without my consent. This "Press Release" was written using my company name so as to get picked up by Google Alerts and other news feed systems. I subsequently received dozens of questions from members of my company and industry asking why my job history was combined with a recent real estate transaction and made into a formal announcement.

I recognize that much of this information is public but combining this info and representing it by "Company X product manager bought a house for Y at this address" is completely inappropriate. The use of my company's name with my personal information is not company news. I use LinkedIn to share information about my work history for the context networking, business relationships, etc.

I do not share my info with LinkedIn so it can be combined with my personal real estate purchase information. It's the packaging and distribution of this information that I want stopped. According to LinkedIn, they claim that their privacy policy is such that all info I submit to their service will only be used and represented by LinkedIn.

So given that statement, how can Blockshopper be allowed to reference and re-purpose this information for their gain in terms of advertising and viewership? I want my info removed from their site. This has affected my professional representation to my colleagues and business contacts. This information, eventhough available to the public, has been packaged by Blockshopper.com such that it's accessibility has merged my company and its brand with myself and my personal real estate and address information.

I googled my address and my first name, last name, address and a map of where I lived appeared along with the same information for all of my neighbors. I don't mind my address being mapped but not with my full name next to it. I requested that my personally identifiable information be removed and they refused. They say they are using public information. However, this public information was published on paper files for tax purposes, not publicly posted online for everyone to view. I am unclear as to why it is vital to their website data that our full name be listed along with our address.

They posted a disclosure of mine and my wife's names and address and members of the household online without permission. I opt out of any information sharing with all companies I deal with. My telephone and address are unlisted. My concern is identity theft or stalking and when contacted them, I was told there is nothing I can do about it because they have First Amendment Rights and I have no privacy rights regarding this. How will I be able to prove their disclosure lead to have caused it if and when it happens? My privacy is requested and when asked for her home address, I was told no and BlockShopper does not post any of their employees personal information online.

I have my information withheld at the county where I have purchased my house. Doing a public search of their websites does not reveal my name anywhere. In fact searching the Internet does not reveal my name anywhere except blockshopper.com. When I discovered that my information was made available to the public I contacted these folks asking to be removed. I was told that as this is public record that was that. So why is it that the county does not release my name yet the blockshopper does? What benefit is it to have my name on their site? Note I could care less about publishing how much I paid for my house. I could care less about them publishing my address. Why on God's green earth publish my name? Are they trying to encourage identity theft? I feel that I'm personally being threatened by the actions that blockshopper.com has chosen to take. This threat is continued in their bullying actions by stating that this is public record and I'm powerless to change it.

This company publishes my name, address, a picture of my home, home value and specifics on the internet, picked up by Google. I work for Child Protective Services, I am a custody evaluator and I have worked with the police providing services for kidnapped children. They refused to take my address down and are placing me and my family at serious risk.

Blockshopper has posted personal details including my name, spouse's name, home address, and home value on a public website without my permission. They've submitted this information to search engines such that my personal information is now immediately visible just by typing in my name on any search engine. When I requested removal of this information because of my family's history of having been victimized by burglary and homicide, Scarlett ** requested documents attesting to this, and then ignored my follow-up attempts to contact her.

I will be taking legal action, as well as media action against this company. It is invasion of privacy and poses security risk toward myself and my family.

I am joining the group of individuals I have seen protesting the website **. I have asked them to remove my name from their site, and they have refused. My concerns are with safety, and "I should have the right to request a non-government entity to remove my name. They provided a list of persons/occupations that can request to remove such information, which is a joke. If they can anyone should be able to. Furthermore, I wonder how many others such as TV stars, musicians, or others as such, can have their names removed.

My other example is such as with the airlines industry, and for example, Toyota. They wait for something dire to happen, before anything is done. That is disgusting! Will it take someone to get murdered, before a change is made? I am absolutely angered, and stressed over this. My information should be private. I am not a convict. I am a law abiding citizen.

After reading other people's frustration dealing with this company, I decided to email Google asking them to do something about this irresponsible company. "This site refuses to remove my personal information from their website (Blockshopper.com). It has my address, picture, property tax, and more. Can this be blocked from your site? If you search google, there are so many complaint against them. They are risking millions of American life. Shame on them!". If we all write to Google, lawmakers and other individuals, something might get done. This site makes people's personal information readily available by simple search. This is dangerous and invasion of privacy.

This site is garbage. I just love how they post your personal info and say it's public and won't take it down unless the county makes it private, or you have a stalker and a police report to prove it. They should at least have to take it down when asked. Do we even have the right to privacy or not?

I am concerned that my data (my address, my education, my past work place, current work place, etc) is on Blockshopper, and appears when my name is searched on google. The seriousness of the privacy infringement by Blockshopper is that it aggregates info and makes it available by name. The argument that it is public data does not hold. Public data is spread out in various sources but Blockshopper aggregates all this info and make it available by name search.

I was in email communique' with a "Scarlett". I sent an email request to her as provided on Blockshopper.com's website. I simply asked her to please remove my information from Blockshopper.com's website. She replied with saying they cannot. Here's is the latest as of March 2010. "Our policy is that we do not remove information from out database unless required by the laws of that state/county". The following was her earlier response to my request, "Your name is a part of the public record. I suggest contacting the county if they are willing to remove you from the public record the information will drop off during our next update from your county". I explained to her that my state and county maintains a real property database which is legal and has been in existence for decades, therefore, this new Blockshopper.com is not necessary or was even authorized. When one googles ones name, this Blockshopper stuff comes up. When Blockshopper was not here our private/personal information didn't come up. They are making it so easy for anyone to collect information. There must be some law against this. In addition, they are rude people and I may even say predatory. I don't like them. There is no good reason for this and this is not good business. It appears that they (Blockshopper.com) have taken the liberty to provide personal information without authorization from the civilian/public.

Now that I informed them that I complained to the Consumer Affairs people and my attorney, Block shopper has added two more listings of my information! I asked them nicely to remove my information and now they have three entries for me! This company needs to be shut down! I am emotionally distressed over the fact that my personal information is out there now for my residents to see and locate where I live. I have taken great strides to hide where I live so angry tenants cannot find my home and Blockshopper.com has now added entries on me! Please make them stop. I will be finding a therapist to help me deal with this emotional distress.

I google myself frequently because I have apartment homes and every once in a while a tenant will get pissed off at me. I do not want them to know where I live. Blockshopper.com has published my name, address, trust information, amount we paid for the home and other information I do not want my tenants to have access to. Every other site that had information about me has removed it. I recently had a tenant get upset, find where I live, send me threatening letters and keyed my cars for over $5,000 worth of damage. She found my information on Blockshopper.com.

I asked Scarlet to remove my information and she refused. I actually hired an attorney to write her a letter to tell her my safety is in jeopardy because of her website. She did not care. I have copies of all the emails if you would like. My computer guru sent me links to several places where this Blockshopper.com website has had complaints. Please shut them down. I am in fear of my life and the lives of my dogs now. I am having to install cameras at my home to videotape the goings on outside.

These guys published my full name and address in Google! They give my wife's name, my kids' names, my relatives. There are photos of my house including the backyard. An open invitation to burglars. How can they do this? When I contacted them, they said "tough luck". Someone's got to stop these guys!

My privacy is being violated by their posting of my personal information on their website. I have been getting a lot of marketing stuff in the mail and knocks on the door for other offers like offering to buy my property at a low price (my purchase price is posted).

Same as everyone else. I googled my name and up came my full name and address, my wife's name and every bit of information about my home and where I live including photographs (no doubt stolen from Google). When I asked them to remove it, I got a curt note telling me that they wouldn't because it's public information. I cannot find any public records where I live to validate their claim. In any case, when someone asks them to remove the listing, they should do it. I am just angry enough to go after them now.

I requested to have my name removed from their site, as I have concerns about staying safe. Blockshopper.com did not care and refused to remove or abbreviate my name. May the employees of blockshopper.com experience the difficulty that they have put innocent private citizens. I will not shop with advertisers like Google, Verizon, and realtors who affiliate themselves with blockshopper.com. These people who threaten my welfare have taken advantage of me.

Blockshopper.com is posting my name address and cost of my home as well as aerial photos of where my home is and how to get to it. It comes up in a Google search. I'm worried about my safety because this information comes up in a Google search only with Block Shopper and I don't want it to.

Blockshopper refuses to provide an "opt out" on their site which exposes personal information at a dangerous level. Even when informed that there were safety reasons to protect my family, they refused to remove my info. Apparently, the only way to stay off this website is to not own a home. Isn't that a violation of civil rights?

Blockshopper.com is a paid advertisement website that takes information from linked in and other websites to create dangerous, false information and is an invasion of privacy. They need to be shut down. Invasion of privacy. Falsification of records.

I I asked to be removed from their unauthorized website where both my own and my wife's personal information are on display. I had written, "Please remove us from your list immediately. This is very disturbing and a complete invasion of privacy. I expect a response back within 24 hours." Their response was, "BlockShopper publishes public records. Property ownership and sales information is listed publicly in multiple places on the internet and in other publications. We get our data from the county-- it is the public record. It's our goal to be accurate and consistent, so we don't simply edit the public record on any request."

This is an outrage and certainly adds to the continued destruction of our "Right to Privacy" in this country, regardless of how they choose to twist the law.

My wife is a social worker who regularly interacts with the public over very emotional issues. For her safety and as a matter of county policy, our home address and phone number are unlisted. Yet, we were recently alarmed to find that our home address shows up as the first result when one puts her name into Google now.

I asked BlockShopper to remove it, but they refused, saying it's public information. Yet they are the only ones that puts this info on the web for everyone to see, indexed by search engines. I believe freedom of speech does not apply here. If it is illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, then it should not be OK to put a person's address on the web if they have safety concerns and asked the company to remove it. All I want is for them to allow a method of opting out, but they refused. Is there anything we can do?

Company publishes and distributes on search engines private information. This information is drawn from municipal government records which are NOT entered into Internet search engines and therefore is protected by municipal servers. The questions are: 1) How does blockshopper download the information, and 2) Does the government express permission to enter the information into universal search engines?

I have asked repeatedly for my name and address to be removed from their website. Like many others, I have been told that it is public information. Yes, I realize that; however, via the state sites, my name is not "googleable"! And, if I can opt not to have my name and address published in a phone book, I should have the right to opt out of having my name and address listed on the Internet. This is a violation of my privacy and I want it STOPPED!

BLockshopper totally invaded my privacy by putting personal information in one place for all to see. We have small kids nd are now concerned for their safety. The site not only shows what we paid, and where we live (aerial view) , it also tell my professional biography.

They have invaded my privacy by listing my name, address, and property description and location on their website. I asked them to remove my name from their website and they refused.

I am one of the homeowners listed on this site. Please remove the reference to my husband and myself as well as our unit number. I have just completed the arduous task of changing both my work number and cell number to avoid being found by somebody who has been harassing me for years, and your site could possibly enable the behavior to continue, potentially leading to disastrous results.

I am concurrently forwarding this email to my other neighbors in the complex as I am certain that they do not want their personal information publicized. In addition, I am filing reports with the Better Business Bureau, Consumer Affairs and the Attorney General's office.

I called and verified my valid deed with Lake County and am hoping that there are no consequences to this incorrect information being out on the web but I hesitate to call Blockshopper directly since I'm certain they are unethical and might use any information I give them for illegal purposes which would cause problems to unravel. Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm worried that when my husband and I try to sell our home, whihc me might have to do since we have two children in college, we will have legal problems because of this incorrect information which supposedly came from public records.

I was also horrified to see my info listed on the second line of Google. I emailed Scarlett 3 times asking to remove my info as I've had identity theft issues in the past and I was told I needed to produce a police report or a restraining order which I am working on. I did some research to find out the owner/s of the website and found it ironic that blockshopper uses another domain to protect the owners privacy and conceal their identity.

But if you google around you can easily find the home addresses and names of the owners posted by other disgruntled people. I called the Better Business Bureau and this company received an F rating. They told me to call the Missouri Attorney General to file a complaint. Hopefully there'll be enough complaints that this company will be forced to have an opt out option for everyone that wants that.

I feel victimised that my privacy is compromised by this website. There is no opt out option. I've gone to the police and called the civil courts and it seems the only option would be a private law suit to force them to remove my information.

This online company has a web site. This company is creating real-estate posts and publishing them online by combining public information from various sources, and publishing them online. The result is a newly assembled set of information that is violating my personal rights to privacy.

I am a private citizen. I did not solicit this company for any service, nor did i provide them with information. Yet, they are actively harvesting information from other websites (where i did volunteer information but only based on the terms and conditions of those respective sites), and they are assembling my public information with information that was not volunteered, in order to create a pseudo-news posts about me. This site makes money from the Google ads it displays and drives traffic to.

My home listing is public information, but where i work and my personal name associated with my listing, is not public information. I am selling my home as a short sale (that is, less than what i paid for it) through a real estate agent. The home listing is public information, but my personal name associated with the listing is not public.

Also, when i listed the house, i did not mention where i work, nor did i provide a photo of myself. The information that this site has posted about me may actually jeopardize my job. My employer may regard me selling my home short as an indication that i am not able to manage my personal budget, and therefore could severely restrict my advancement or could let me go since i have no future at the company. They could easily disguise this, so I'm very concerned about losing my job over this company's invasion of my privacy.

into a 'national data bank'. The FTC has initiated a number of law enforcement actions to 'protect and preserve consumer privacy rights'. the more complaints the FTC gets with regard to Blockshopper.com ...the faster we get results!

I do not wish to have my personal information about my home and address and how much I paid for my home come up on google. I feel this is a privacy breech and I want to know how to stop them from posting it.

My personal information is being made available on this site - there needs to be an opt out mechanism in place here - this is not right. My family was a victim of identity theft and my personal information needs to be removed ASAP.

Blockshopper.com is a complete invasion of my privacy and puts my personal safety at risk.

While they say "it's public record." I have the right to give my consent or not to blast to the world via the Internet my personal information.

This site needs an "opt out" or to be shut down.

I also googled myself and was horrified to see as the second listing, my name, address, and how much I paid for my house. When you click on the link, you can also send me a message (somehow)..

I emailed Scarlett S and nicely asked her to take my info off the google search. As a single women, living alone I am very sensitive to my personal information being too accessible.

I wrote back agreeing it was public info but if I DO NOT want it posted they should respect my privacy wishes and remove me since they are NOT a .gov or .org county or state web site, they are a for-profit site, profiting off ad space for MY info!

and i also reminded her that they removed the info for Day J (due to his lawsuit) and I deserve the same courtesy.

No response from her after that.

is anyone looking into a class action suit. I am interesting if so.

I agree its public info but if you can be unlisted in a phone book then we should be removed from this site if we wish.

These people create a separate web page for every single name associated with every real estate transaction.

I pulled my name up while in Europe- it was on the first Google search page. Blockshopper refused to remove my name, citing freedom speech. This regardless of the fact that I have serious concerns for the well being of my family due to the business I am in, and prior crimes already committed and targeted against those in my industry.

Whether they have "freedom" or not to publish such information, the way they are doing it is most assuredly a violation of Google's policies.

My house address and personal info is displayed on this website.

Consequently my privacy, financial security, physical security, and identity security are further compromised than need be. Additionally, my information is more easily accessible to mailing lists. I have been exploited without my knowledge or consent.

Citing that the info is public record, Blockshopper will not remove names, even when requested to do so. This is an egregious invasion of my privacy. Doesn't anyone remember when actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered on her doorstep because a crazed stalker found her address from the DMV? If there is a class action suit assembling, please count me in! My privacy has been seriously compromised!

Our names, address etc should not showed in public or should give us an option to opt out without our consent. Someone might stalk an individual.

Blockshopper.com is the reason for several legal suits brought against me. No one knew that I was a homeowner until Los Angeles Blockshopper continuously over the years, exposed the information. Monetary damages, stress and strain. On top of it all I am a victim of abuse! This violation of privacy keeps me vulnerable.

This company is listing personal information - full name, address, purchase price of my home on a public page. When my name is googled, all of my private information is accessed on the second page of the google search. This is a breech of privacy. I called and emailed to get my information removed and was told this was public domain and that anything in public records can be posted. I have seen several complaints on this and want to know what can be done to stop this company from posting private information.

I just recently came upon this website Blockshoppers.com. Moreover I had googled my name and city and came upon my full name and address listed. I do not have my name and address published in the phone book and do not wish to have that information displayed for all the public. I have contacted Scarlette Simpson via email and she was no help. I researched this company and see many individuals with complaints and lawsuits. Id like to know how I can be deleted from their website or if this is possible.

lists real estate and deed and title information. blockshopper probably gets this information from public records, BUT individuals listed should all have the ability to 'opt-out'

I cannot belief this Blockshopper is still in business. I am happy to join a class action lawsuit against them. I know Jones Day law firm sued them in Chicago, and Blockshopper was forced to remove the attorneys' info from the Blockshopper link.

Blockshopper.com isn't publishing our information for the purpose of selling real estate. They make money with every click and are using our names and putting us at risk for the purposes of making a buck. These people are despicable. The laws need to change. Contact all your elected officials, contact everyone you know and tell them to do the same. Contact the media. Contact their advertisers and agents. Spread the word and expose these evil people for what they are. My address is now available to the world.

Blockshopper.com gleens other websites to get real estate info to put on their site...for the sole purpose of selling advertising dollars. if you request to opt-out, they say no. they have put peoples' lives at risk and still, nothing. I have called the FTC today and reported them and will keep calling all their advertisers, realtors etc. to get them to realize, this 3 man, 1 woman company is a 'joke' ...and not reputable....so why would anyone want to be associated with that? especially, Lifelock, Disney, Wells Fargo, Swarofski, Bank of America and realtors?

I googled my name and it brought up my address on the front page of the search. I am a single woman who does not give out my address to stangers! This is unsafe and a violation of my privacy please make them cease and desist. anyone could come to my door to find me. uncool.

The website publishes my full name with my home address along with the amount that I purchased my home for all with the intent of gaining profit from the information. I requested my name be taken off the website, and was told it is public information.

Blockshopper.com posts peoples personal information as far as address, their property purchase price and date of property purchase. I have contacted Federal Trade Commission about it but they do not take individual complaints. So I need a group of people to file complaint with FTC. I see a lot of complaint about blockshopper.com here. They do not call or write back.

I also informed them that I live one city away from my job and based on my job functions I recieve threats and anyone at anytime can locate me. There responses were "its public information".

will NOT remove that information...

and Down....

don't get mad....get even !

Nothing personal....it's just Business!

The business of getting EVEN !!!

information upon request.

before signing on with them.

After being victimized and moving, with an UP number, I see my address on blockshopper.com - asked to be removed. no one has the courtesy to do it or return an email or call. I am NOW posting the CEO"s family address and phone to see HOW HE LIKES IT!

This company legally post public information on individuals as related to real estate transactions. The problem is they make it readily available through a simple google search. With Public records you generally have to go down to county records to pull this info. This site makes it easy for stalkers to show up on your doorstep. There have been several victims whom have complaint. One lady was running from an ex and he found her through blockshopper.com and showed up on her doorstep.

is there anything that can be down to shut this site down? OR have them make it more difficult to get your personal info. Safety and welfare of children living in the home would be my first concern.

I was informed by a friend that Googling my name revealed my FULL name, FULL home address, a PICTURE of my house, what I originally paid for it and the name of the previous owner. I do not appreciate my privacy being invaded like this!! I realize that we live in a time when protecting one's privacy is a challenge, however it SHOULDN'T be! I never granted my permission to blockshopper to use my information publicly. They should be sued for their blatant disrespect of privacy.

I tried to explain this to the stupid Scarlett but she does not care. (They always don't until sued)

This website is displaying property information, as well as names of property owners on their website: www.blockshopper.com. My information is mentioned there along with the address and picture of my property without my consent--posing a danger to me and my family. Please have them remove our names immediately. They furnished mine and my wife's names, along with the property address on their website (with picture) without our consent, posing a grave danger to us. Please have them remove our names immediately.

They display my home address when someone Googles my name. This is negligent and poses undue risk to consumers. I have tried to contact them to get my name removed. Something must be done about this site!

BlockShopper.com has listed my address as well as every address on my street with the owner or tax payers name. My address needs to be kept personal as my life can be in danger if it falls into the wrong hands. The house is actually NOT in my name, the Taxes on the house were changed, never the less when anyone searches MY NAME, the address I live at pops up. I have "signed up" on BlockShopper.com which stated that I would have "access to privacy controls" that DO NOT EXIST! I had emailed them many times, left one voice mail, one reply to email was that I would be put on a list. This is NOT good at all.

Remove my name and ADDRESS!

Site reports public information which can be accessible by a search engine. This gives anyone with a computer access to the addresses of others. Invades the privacy of the individual.