How do we stop this from happening?

[luvmetender]

Scary stuff! (make sure your speakers are on)

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[meems]

Just seeing the letters aclu usually scares me.

[luvmetender]

This is actually more of a reality than you know. If you have the SS# of someone with aetna health insurance, you can log onto [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] , register on navigator, and see their entire health claim history! Or, did you ever try putting your phone number in Google? Your address and a map to your home comes up instantly.

I don't know anything about the aclu... I just know what scares me.

[Pipanella]

Originally Posted by luvmetender

This is actually more of a reality than you know. If you have the SS# of someone with aetna health insurance, you can log onto [Only registered and activated users can see links. Either login above or Register Now] , register on navigator, and see their entire health claim history! Or, did you ever try putting your phone number in Google? Your address and a map to your home comes up instantly.

I don't know anything about the aclu... I just know what scares me.

I tried the phone number thing with Google and it found nothing.

[juliet57]

Originally Posted by Pipanella

I tried the phone number thing with Google and it found nothing.

Just tried my phone number and it came up with my physical address even though I use a post office box as my mailing address. There was a link to map the location so any site that I give my real phone number to can see exactly where I live.

[Debbie42]

No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.

Your search - xxx-xxx-xxxx - did not match any documents.

[telos2000]

Me too, nada.

[dlabrie708]

My telephone number brought up my name and my husband's name [just like if you looked in the phone book]. Like the others said, there was a link to yahoo maps right next to our names. When you click on the link, it gives you a map of the area with your street # highlighted.

Do you guys have unlisted phone numbers? Maybe it only happens if your number is listed. Weird!

Lori

[bobbcat]

If you enter your phone # and it produces your personal demographic info, you will see a link on which you can click to have your info removed from the database.

[luvmetender]

Originally Posted by bobbcat

If you enter your phone # and it produces your personal demographic info, you will see a link on which you can click to have your info removed from the database.

Ah, I didn't know that! You have to click on "Phonebook results for xxx-xxx-xxxx"

Thanks, bobcat!

[crazytimes]

I couldn't get the site to load. Just kept prompting me to download it, yet I have Flash installed so not sure what's up.

[meems]

I forget how now, but there is a way to have yourself removed from googles list..I used to be on it, but did the removal & am no longer there.

[janelle144]

With the new HIPPA laws I doubt you can see people's health file without credentials to look at them.

My hubby works in a doc's office and one person was fired cause she looked into a file that she has no business accessing. She could supply no good reason either when they saw she went into them. It's all on the computer and recorded who sees what.

Before I guess if you worked in a doc's or insurance office you could get all kinds of goody info on your friends and neighbors. That was not a good thing for people's privacy.

[luvmetender]

Originally Posted by janelle144

With the new HIPPA laws I doubt you can see people's health file without credentials to look at them.

My co-worker's son is on Aetna health insurance. Since she knows his SS#, she logged on with it and could see all his claims. Anyone who obtains his SS# can do the same thing.

Many health insurance companies use your SS# as your ID# and they print it right on your insurance card.

HIPAA is a start but it has a long way to go.

[mrbowler]

Originally Posted by Pipanella

I tried the phone number thing with Google and it found nothing.

Pip-I have to send you a pm on the info that is out there. You might be surprised.