This week I've had the unpleasant experience of discovering my name & home address are published on the web, easily accessible through a Google search & particularly via the website www.blockshopper.com After two requests I discovered that this company does not want to remove my name- even though I have described to them that I am the victim of a stalker in the past & have taken great efforts to protect my home address.

After further research, I discovered there are a number of similar complaints against Blockshopper.com, & they are refusing those requests as well. Also- please be aware that it is most likely that your name & home address are published on this site as well. I did some random checks on friends and business people, & came up with 100% hits each time. If your name is unusual, as is mine, it pops up very quickly on Google with a link to Blockshopper. If it is more common, one can just go onto the Blockshopper site, choose the city, choose the option of finding property by “Homeowners”, type in a full name or even a last name- & if that person owns property under their name- voila- you now have the home address. There is usually an aerial map photograph, frequently a street photograph, and in many cases a photo of the front of the house! If this property has changed hands in the last few years, also available is the purchase price, & the taxes paid. You’ll notice on the opening pages of the city areas that there are “news stories” about recent sales and purchases. These also are not necessarily authorized stories provided by either seller or buyer. These are data mined and photos are pulled from social networking sites such as Facebook. Again- sellers and buyers have been complaining to this company, to no avail. Their typical response is that the information they are posting is available to anyone through public records.

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