Infospace has lookups for businesses, personal addresses, e-mail, etc. Their locator is excellent and their maps are good. They even will find the businesses of a specified type that are within a specified distance of a specified address (as you specify, understand?). They even have a reverse lookup. Have a phone number? You can find the name and address. Have a zip code? You can find the area it covers. Have an address? You can find the names of the folks who live there. Have a name? You can find the email address.

This site will help you find area codes for a phone number.

National Address Server where you can get the zip+4 for any address. In fact, you can get a gif image of the address with a bar code.

The Internet Stalker has links to search tools that help you find info on just about anybody. Also, the site has many links that highlight the lack of privacy on the Internet.

The Codex has links to pages related to privacy and surveillance.

AnyWho finds your house, gives you a map to get there, gives your e-mail address and Web page, if it can. Finds businesses and people, gives you the names of folks who occupy adjacent addresses, and has a reverse telephone lookup. Forget privacy. (Brought to you by the AT&T folks.)

People Search

Ahoy Home Page Finder will find the home page for you. You enter the name and the domain (optional).

Reverse IP Address Lookup give information on an IP address.

Whois sponsored by ARIN, gives you information on a Web page or IP address.

WhoWhere Directions gives a map to a location that you enter. Also has an e-mail finder as well as some other search tools.

Northern Light's GeoSearch will find businesses and other establishments within a specified distance of a specified address. The results of the search are somewhat chaotically presented.

Virtual Gumshoe has links to sites related to investigative resources like Motor Vehicle & Others, Resources for Adoptees (Includes Databases), State Parole Boards, Scanner Frequencies, etc. First stop when you want to research someone or some business.

Fund Race Neighbor 2004 tells you who gave political contributions and how much.

Docusearch Investigations has links to a variety of databases: DMV searches, property ownership searches, etc.

Catalog Choice - helps you get off the mailing lists of catalogs.

Find a person's E-mail address from the 411 folks.

WhoWhere is a popular white pages directory. Also helps you find a car, an apartment, or a job.

Switchboard will help you find anybody's address and phone number anywhere in the USA. Scary. It also will assist you in finding businesses, Web sites, and e-mail addresses. Site includes maps and other search tools.

Yahoo's People Search locates telephone numbers, snail-mail addresses, e-mail addresses, or homepages. Also finds addresses associated with a known phone number.

E-mail address finder looks through a list of e-mail addresses it has found on the net in messages sent since July, 1991.

The Ultimate White Pages is a collection of links to sites that find people. Also has maps and a reverse look up.

High School Alumni can be found in this database of 16,000 high schools. My high school was not in the database so the data are suspect.

Phone Number finder.

InfoSpace

Database America will locate an individual or a company.

AnyWho finds businesses and people, gives you the names of folks who occupy adjacent addresses, and has a reverse telephone lookup.

Where Did They Move To? supposedly will locate folks who have recently moved.

How to Find Someone's E-mail Address can get pretty heavy at times.

Reverse Lookup on address, phone number, email.

Starting Page collection of lookup sites - has a list of reverse lookup sites and other unusual person finder pages.

Freeality - has a bunch of finder tools on one page. The forms from various sites are squashed onto a single page and are somewhat unintuitive although convenient.

Phone Number Reverse Lookup - sponsored by Verizon - you enter a phone number and the site tells you who it belongs to along with other info.

SmartPages helps find a business or an individual. Has reverse address and phone lookups.

SuperPages is a one-stop-shop for finding businesses.

Internet 800 Number Directory which lists all of the 800 numbers in the country. Search engine is available.

Zip2 is a yellow pages directory that includes door-to-door maps.

Companies Online is sponsored by Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos.

Bell South's Yellow Pages

At Hand is a compendium of all of the yellow pages in the United States.

SuperPages is a one-stop-shop for finding businesses.

Local Google - you enter your zip code and a search word and this search engines finds anything you want in your neighborhood.

SmartPages helps find a business or an individual. Has reverse address and phone lookups.

CitySearch has a lot of business and commerial vendor info with a pretty good search engine.

Insider Pages - has reviews of businesses and services in your area as rated by the site's users. Not very many ratings at this time but it is a decent yellow pages substitute..

The Anonymizer will tell you what information is being broadcast whenever you visit a Web site. Also, provides a way to surf the Web anonymously, either slowly for free or a little bit faster than that for some bucks.

Other sites that protect your identity while you surf, for a fee, are IDsecure, Privada, somebody. No recommendations are intended or made.

Privacy Analysis shows you information that you are broadcasting about yourself and your computer when you browse the Web.

Leak Test This is a little program that you download and run on your PC to see if your firewall is allowing traffic to be broadcast from your system.

Browser Spy shows you information that you are broadcasting about yourself and your computer when you browse the Web.

PA Do No Call List

National Do No Call List

Delphi's Privacy on the Internet: "What Others Can Learn About You" is a good, clear explanation of how vulnerable we are on the Web. The explanations include experiments that you can carry out to find out what personal information is freely available.

Remailers are sites that let you send and receive data anonymously.

Doug Monroe's Online Guide to Privacy Resources

EEF - Electronic Frontier Foundation is dedicated to preserving privacy.

EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center Privacy Tools has an article on a survey that EPIC did of the leading search companies. Also has links to anonymizers, cookie eaters, and other privacy tools.

Cookie Central tells you all about cookies.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

The WorldNet Remailer

MixMaster is another remailer.

Anonymizer is another Web-based remailer service.

Useful Links About Spam

Abuse Net You send them your spam mail and they will track it to the sender and complain for you.

PC World Collection of Links on security and privacy.

Privacy brought to us by the ACLU folks.

EPIC The Electronic Privacy Information Center has tips and tools to help you protect your privacy.

Free Stuff and Your Privacy is a story about how that free Web space or free computer is putting your privacy at risk.

Shields Up This site will tell you as much as it can find out about you and your connection.

Privacy.Net This site will tell you as much as it can find out about you and your connection. Best of the analyzer sites.

How to MUNG Your Email Address MUNG stands for 'mash until no good'. This is an easy technique to prevent your email address from falling into the hands of spammers.

How to Hide Your Email Address in Usenet Groups If you subscribe to listservs, check this out.

PrivacyPlace has information and links to products related to keeping your privacy while on the net.

Opt Out helps you contact vendors to opt out of their mailing lists. If only it was that easy.

FTC Privacy Initiatives

Junk Busters is dedicated to fighting junk mail in all forms. Has suggestions on how to communicate your privacy concerns to legislators including sample letters.

Opt Out and the Aureate conspiracy controversy. Site includes 'Spyware' that will detect the Aureate engine so you can remove it from your computer.

Sam Spade has a great set of tools to help you find out where your spam is coming from. You have to understand the Internet and Email to use these tools.

Privacy in the Digital Age is a document created by the federal government on privacy issues on the Internet. This is a surpisingly well written document with many useful tips and links. Also,check out the related site, Know the Rules: Use the Tools, site for additional insights into what the federal government is thinking about your privacy.

Safeweb allows you to enter a URL which it then goes out and gets and delivers to you while scrambling your identity.

IDZap allows you to enter a URL which it then goes out and gets and delivers to you while scrambling your identity.

Spychecker has a list of software programs that have spyware embedded in them. These software programs report your activities without your consent.

Risks Digest has information on the latest attempts at privacy invasion and person tracking.

Fred Cohen's Security and Privacy Site - advice and links to other resources. Leans toward the geeky side.

Privacy.net has a number of tools that show the kinds of information that you are broadcasting when you browse the Web. The site also has links to a lot of other related sites (mostly commercial).

Bug Me Not- allows you to circumvent required registration for use of some Web sites by using an already existing signon ID in their database.