In an era where spam calls, fraud, and anonymous numbers are increasingly common, the need for a reliable reverse phone lookup tool has never been greater, and Spokeo has established itself as the ...

Think your data isn't online? Think your privacy is secure? Take a minute to visit Spokeo and you'll change your mind. The popular information-gathering website offers a multitude of options for ...

Spokeo, a company that advertises itself as "not your grandmother's phonebook," has attracted some ire over the years for its eerily comprehensive profiles of people. Pulling in information from ...

For anyone who feels powerless about controlling their personal information in a world of search engines and public databases, take heart. A recent court ruling suggests you might have more muscle ...

What kind of harm do you have to suffer to get into federal court? Last week, the Supreme Court provided some answers to this question with its decision in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins. By raising the bar ...

The Center for Democracy and Technology has filed a complaint against people-search service Spokeo with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, alleging that the Web site contains inaccurate information ...

Success didn't come easy for Harrison Tang, the CEO and co-founder of Spokeo — but he never backed down from a challenge. When Tang first arrived to the U.S. from Taiwan at age 13, he didn't speak any ...

Spokeo was founded in 2006 by a group of Stanford grads — including CEO Harrison Tang, CTO Mike Daly and CIO Eric Liang — as a social media aggregator. In those early days social media startups were a ...

Data broker and online people search service Spokeo will pay US$800,000 to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it sold consumer profiles to other companies without taking steps required ...

Spokeo, an online data broker, has agreed to pay an $800,000 fine to the Federal Communications Commission to settle charges it peddled inaccurate information about job applicants and violated ...

Keeping up-to-date with all of your friends' activities across various parts of the social web can be a pain and that's where Spokeo hopes to make life a little easier. Started by four recent Stanford ...