From the AP Wire: Serial killer Maury Travis used an online mapping service to show a newspaper reporter where he dumped a body. A former Las Vegas exotic dancer convicted of stalking and harassing her ex-lover posted a map on the Web with directions to the married man’s home.
Internet mapping services are powerful and simple: Type a phone number into Google or other sites for a map with door-to-door directions. Finding someone has never been easier.
Now those resources are provoking a backlash. Spooked people worried about stalkers or worse are striking their particulars from phone and Internet listings.
Search engine provider Google Inc. added a phone number-map lookup feature more than two years ago. There’s also FindPeople.com, WhitePages.com and Switchboard.com, among others. If the sites don’t have a direct link to a map, users can go on their own to such free sites as Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest, or MapPoint. Tens of millions of people use those mapping services each month to help them get places.
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phentermine on Jan 16, 2005 at 11:45 am
Finding your websight was like finding a needle in a haystack.
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