The total number of records being searched is approximately 2 billion. Currently, nearly 100 percent of the records displayed in ZabaSearch results are U.S. It is a search engine, which queries third-party public information databases.
Matzorkis: ZabaSearch does not maintain a database. WN: How many records do you have, and from what countries? You, or the people selling it to other companies to market things to you? People realizing that right now as a result of stumbling on ZabaSearch may find that shocking, but the data has been out there for years. is a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry. When you apply for a credit card, and you don't check the box saying you don't want your information shared, it will be sold. Matzorkis: When you move and fill out a change form with the post office, they record date of move and new address, then sell that to info brokers on the open market. Court records, county records, state records, information that becomes publicly available after you buy a new house or go to the post office and file a change-of-address form.
Information collected by the government, and information that individuals put it out into the public domain. WN: Where does the data on ZabaSearch come from? Our job is to operate in compliance with the law as it stands. We are not given (the) task of determining those guidelines. There should be laws passed to ensure that access is provided in a way that reflects the public's best interest. Law enforcement tells us they think it's a great tool but question whether others should have right to use it. Media and news agencies, about 2 to 3 percent.Įverybody feels they have the right to use this kind of a search engine, but others should not. Department of Homeland Security is around 1 percent of the government portion. Matzorkis: Based on network domains in our server logs, government use is over 20 percent. Robert Zakari: Over a third of our users are media, government and companies. After eight weeks online, beta is processing an estimated three times as many queries as Yahoo People Search on a daily basis.
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But leading up to April 2005, Yahoo People Search was the most-used free people-search directory on the internet since 1998, when Yahoo acquired. Nicholas Matzorkis: We intend to release our beta site traffic levels at the time we announce the end of our beta phase in May. Wired News: How much traffic is the site receiving? Wired News sat down with Robert Zakari, ZabaSearch president and general counsel, and chairman Nicholas Matzorkis, to talk about ZabaSearch. If your information is already out there, the logic goes, at least now you'll know about it.
Plus, an odd, often-reported connection between the company's chairman and members of the Heaven's Gate suicide cult hasn't helped make the company's image any more friendly.īut the founders of ZabaSearch maintain they're not villains, and that their service is a step toward data democratization. We unknowingly leak personal information in countless ways, the argument goes, and neither the government nor private industry provides effective ways for us to control how our digital identities are shared or sold. Critics say ZabaSearch is exploiting the lack of data privacy in America.
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