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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2009 (11:17 AM)

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Warning: Your City of Residence May Be Publicly Accessible!

(I'm feeling shocked)

Recently I did a search on LiveVideo by "people" (rather than by channel or video), and when I did that, I found on the left of my screen a "People Search" form, in which you can search by location, among other things. So I searched for LV members within a 20-mile radius of where I live, and several pages of icons popped up, including my own. Beneath my icon, it listed my city of residence, which shocked the heck out of me, because I only list my state on my profile, because I am very careful to keep my exact location private on the Internet. So I went into my LV account and looked at my "personal information", and didn't see any city, but I did see my zip code. Aha, I thought, that's how the info got in there. I tried to make the zip code blank, but it wouldn't allow such a change. So I then made it "00000", and it accepted it. Whew! Then I went to people search, and I no longer showed up in searches by my real zip code (or even by my fake one). I suggest that everyone do the same thing if you want to delete your city from being accessible by all. I'm thinking of doing a video today, letting LVers know about this privacy issue, because I have a feeling a lot of people are going to want to get rid of that piece of info.

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