4 Steps to Find Information On Someone (2022) highlights simple steps to take when trying to find information on someone.

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. Doesn't actually find someone for you but will clean up the address nicely.

USPhonebook The site has a reverse telephone lookup.

Public Records Online Searches This is a aggregation of online searches for public information. Select by state or by type of information.

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.

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

Note: Most of the reverse lookup sites should be considered unfriendly to your privacy. The net has been flooded with fake reverse lookup sites that simply harvest the information that you enter. Consider yourself warned.

Whitepages finds an address based on name and state. Results show general age to help you zero in. Has reverse address and phone lookups. Most useful of the free reverse lookup sites along with TruePeopleSearch, below.

TruePeopleSearch finds an address based on name and state. Results show general age to help you zero in. Shows previous residences. Reverse phone search available.

Homemetry shows who is living in a given block along with stats on the houses, fire and police incidents, phone numbers, etc. You enter a zip code and it lists the streets. Click on a street to see the details on the housing.

USPhoneBook has a reverse address lookup as well as a reverse phone lookup. Tax and sales data are available along with a historical list of owners.

ThatsThem Find out who lives at a specific address or find someone associated with an email or phone number. The database returns the name of the person who lives there along with economic status, education level, etc.

How to Find Out Who is Calling or Emailing You Short article in CBSNews with links to lookup services.

411 can find an address or phone number and has a reverse lookup.

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

AnyWho finds the address and phone number for the name and location that you enter. The site also has a reverse telephone lookup but it is a phishing site for your email account which you have to give them to get the search results.

CocoFinder is a reverse lookup for phone numbers.

Phone Lookup - find out who is calling you.

Spokeo is a reverse lookup for phone numbers.

How To Find Out Who Is Calling is a good 2022 article about how you can reverse search a phone number to find out if it is bogus or not.

Reverse Phone Lookup - find out who is calling you.

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.

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

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DexKnows - you enter a business that you want to find and the zip code or state.

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

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..

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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

Privacy Rights ClearingHouse has great info on Internet safety.

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.

How To Find Out Who Is Calling is a good 2022 article about how you can reverse seach a phone number to find out if it is bogus or not.

Cookie Central tells you all about cookies.

Abuse Net will help you complain more effectively about spam.

Privacy brought to us by the ACLU folks.

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

Privacy.Net has info on identity and privacy protection.

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.

FTC Privacy Initiatives

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

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.

Check on Unknown Callers This article has 5 sites that can help you identify calls from unknown callers. The sites allow you to enter the number and they check it against their database of numbers and display comments by other users who have encountered that number.

How to Stop Online Vendors from Tracking You This is a New York Times article that includes links to specific company sites that allow you to opt out, although the level to which your data is kept private after opting out is not significant in many cases.