Jigsaw Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

Mike Arrington on Jigsaw, a site that resells detailed personal contact information for over 2.5 million people:

[…] Jigsaw simply pays people to upload other people’s contact information. Users are paid $1 for every contact they upload, and some users have uploaded information on tens of thousands of people.

And:

There appears to be no way to remove your own contact information from Jigsaw once someone has entered it into their database.

What a bunch of scumbags.

★ Thursday, 23 March 2006