Peek You

Category: General

Peekyou is a new website that pulls together information about people from a variety of sources. You can use PeekYou to help other people find your website, blog, profile, photos or other info. And oddly, you may already have a PeekYou profile, even if you've never visited the site...

Take a Peek at This!

PeekYou Profile If you use a social networking site such as Myspace, or you have posted photos on a photo sharing site, then PeekYou may have found your profile and/or photos there, and added those links to an automatically generated PeekYou profile. And if your phone number is listed at Switchboard.com or InfoSpace, it may also have placed a link on your PeekYou profile, on which people can click to see your phone number, address, and a map of your neighborhood.

I searched for my name and found that PeekYou had created a profile for me, with a link to my Myspace page. I edited my profile to add some additional links and a photo, just for fun. But then I noticed that PeekYou allows ANYONE to edit the links and descriptions on your profile page.

If PeekYou turns into a free-for-all, where people can maliciously change other people's profiles, then it will have little long-term value. And of course there are bound to be some privacy concerns. Granted, all of the information they aggregate about an individual is publicly available on other websites, but what if someone posted PRIVATE information about a person on their profile? Post your thoughts about PeekYou below...


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Posted by Bob Rankin on June 22, 2007 03:38 PM


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Posted by:
allstondave
23 Jun 2007

Thanks for the Heads-up on PeekYou. I searched both my screen name and real name, and thankfully did not find any profiles posted. I do not like this idea at all!


Posted by:
bob
23 Jun 2007

This could be the internet at it's worst. Sone nut case creates a profile to damage a reputation and the harm is done.


Posted by:
Des Walsh
24 Jun 2007

Can't see why I would use this rather than, say, ZoomInfo. Having the profile editable by anyone seems a recipe for destroying any potential value from the outset. Search by country is limited to USA and Canada. Helloooooooooo in there :)


Posted by:
Michelle
25 Jun 2007

Although I have found an entry for myself on PeekYou, I removed the link to my photo and MySpace profile. It still shows my photo though. There is a reason why my Myspace profile and photos are private and only available to my friends.


Posted by:
Dana Carrier
25 Jun 2007

I do appear to have a PeekYou profile. I seriously don't like that there is a profile for me on a website that I have never visited (even though the information is in error). I couldn't find an "opt-out". Do you know of one?

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, my best suggestion is to edit the profile and delete or obscure as much as possible.


Posted by:
Chris
28 Jun 2007

I tried registering with their site and received error messages from the server: mysql_connect() Access denied for user 'peekyou_all'@'sql1.peekyou.com' (using password: NO) in /home/peekyou/write_connect.inc on line 2.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This happens often with database driven sites.


Posted by:
Russ
28 Jun 2007

I spent 10 minutes trying to edit my profile as I am married not single. I could not find a place to do it. Also tried to edit the info in my space, couldn't find that either as peekyou links to my space. figure?


Posted by:
John
17 Jul 2007

Apparently there are only 11 people living in Canada!

EDITOR'S NOTE: It's odd, but you have to drill down to the city level to see more profiles. Toronto shows 21000+ profiles.


Posted by:
justiceserver
04 May 2008

OMgaawwd, peekyou is definately looking to get the crap sued out of them. They have a part where it states that if you want your info removed to " ' please feel free to contact us" ', but then if you try to do so, they have something going that actually prevents it! If you send an email to privacy@peekyou.com, don't expect a reply because THEY NEVER WILL!
I plan on filing something against them for refusing to contact me in return no matter how many times I have contacted them with the dire straights of my situation and the urgency of removing my personal info from their site. I don't think we're going to be seeing this website for very much longer folks! Yay!


Posted by:
jlw
24 Jun 2008

This website is insane. We just discovered it. I plan on filing suit against them as well if I do not receive a response within 24 hours and have the profile removed. This is a complete abuse of privacy and a complete fraud as well because you cannot contact them, change the profile, get in under a new profile, or anything. I not only plan to file a lawsuit but also talk to the authorities about any possible criminal charges as well. My myspace profile is private for a reason!


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