DISQUS

Joshua beil · 1 year ago

Lord yes. My significant other was trying to find a cousin she's fallen out of touch with through Reunion.com. Next thing she knows, her entire address book is spammed with invites - without permission.

mike · 9 months ago

same thing happened to me yesterday. i started receiving emails from other people i know and i was suprised they were getting me to join.....all of the sudden i start getting calls and emails from people that think i sent them an email to join.......which includes clients of mine and god knows whomever else. it is very embarrassing. it is just wrong!!!!

Doug · 1 year ago

I was contacted by a lawyer in regards to a complaint I made about Reunion on a pretty well known blog. Email stated that they were investigating reunion.com and wanted to learn more about my experience.

liholea · 1 year ago

who was this lawyer? so I can write to them about my experience and concern because I work for a prison. I want to know what I can do with this.
Thank you for your time.

Susan · 1 year ago

I am a member of Reunion and have never had a problem with my privacy when using the site. I almost used the Address Book feature Joshua mentioned, but decided to click on the opt-out link. It isn't required. It's so important to read carefully when it comes to sharing your email address book information. Thankfully, I did.

Kathryn · 1 year ago

Reunion.com’s business practice is totally unacceptable. They invaded my privacy by sending out e-mails to my entire address book. I just signed up to be part of a class action lawsuit against the company. I would love to have the e-mail of Reunion.com’s president so that I can spam his e-mail address book.

Shannon · 1 year ago

I would love to be a part of this class action lawsuit. Do you know whom I can contact?

Sassy Creative · 1 year ago

Hi there. Thanks for communicating this to the general public. My address book was snarfed this am without my permission and 300 emails were sent to contacts because I was unaware of this practice of not utilizing opt in/out protocols.

Please let your readers know they can file a complaint against www.reunion.com by accessing the Federal Trade Commission website and "filing a complaint. They can also file a complaint via the Southland BBB in California.

For more information on the practice reunion.com is using, check out their wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion.com

By all means, this company doesn't seem to be taking privacy seriously and needs to be forced to the same regulations the rest of the world is espoused to.

beedee · 1 year ago

I had an experieince that I am so angry at reunion.com. I have been looking for an ex-boyfriend on reunion.com for a while. He was never on it but it took me to to something like Intellis. This has been going on for about a year. A couple of months ago, I was given a free six month trial period. Lo & behold, his name appears with some members of his family. I immediately wrote a message and sent it to his reunion email address. I never heard from him. A couple of days ago, I happened to go on the help section and I found out that reunion.com takes names from Public Record!!! I called up and spoke to customer service and that is what they do. I told the guy that the person I was looking for was an ex-boyfriend
and this was playing with my emotions!!!! He said that he will tell management. Has anybody had the same experience? Is there a class action lawsuit on something like this. If there is or somebody is planning on doing one, count me in! Also, this not fair to my ex-boyfriend either. Maybe he doesn't believe in getting in touch with the past. It's not right to place his or anybody's info without permission. Again, count me in on any class action lawsuits.

Shannon · 1 year ago

YES! I've had bad experiences. How do you block them??

Debbie J · 1 year ago

A so called friend put my name on the free reunion site and whatever else needed to be
on there. Now when you search for my name, they have the reunion.com link and you click on the link and there is reunion.com and my entire name (first, maiden and married) and
my city and state AND email address! You cannot get ahold of them on the phone, I
tried and it kept me on hold. I am filing a complaint.

Vida · 2 weeks ago

I have found the same thing on my name completely by acccident. First, last, (Maiden) and mothers maiden name. I have written them several times with no respones. I do not believe that I ever signed up for Reunion.com, and if I did ,I closed the account right away.I am very interested in a class action suit as well. This practice of reunion.com could cause me an identity theft at any time.

Hunter · 1 year ago

I am not a member of reunion.com and when doing a random search for my name on Google, reunion.com has me in their database. I opened this link to check this out and found my full name, age, and cities/states that I have lived in since the 1990's. Also, they had my high school, parents names and city and state, mother law, sister, etc. as well as their cites and states (residence). How can I get this information off of their site. And is their a link to file a class action suit (especially since I never signed up on their site). I live in NC and don't think this type of information should be public.

Please help

Lady · 1 year ago

I have the same complaint as the person immediately above. I googled myself, and found my entire family, their ages, and cities of residence. No member of my family has ever subscribed to reunion.com. This is an invasion of my privacy and I want such information removed from their website.

Sense · 1 year ago

I also think this is an invasion of privacy, to just post people's information on the internet like this. They have the nerve to have an opt-out form , which you have to either submit your personal information to them online or fax/mail them a notarized form with proof of your identity -- i.e. more personal information that they have absolutely no right to. This is just ridiculous. Are we the only d@mn country that has to put up with this crap? The land of the free??? Free to be treated like sh!t apparently.

Entrepreneur · 1 year ago

Unfortunately, looks like the class action law suit being filed by Kronenberger Burgoyne, LLP only covers the spamming of the personal address book entries and not creating profiles without permission or consent. Hopefully, there will be one on this issue as well.

I wish everyone best of luck getting their information off. I am still working on mine. In the meantime, the article above suggests complaining to the FTC. However, I am very tempted to contact the firm that invested millions in Reunion.com, Oak Investment Partners (http://www.oakinv.com/contact/)

A. · 1 year ago

I just contacted the FTC since, I too, was added without permission or consent onto their site. This is a flagrant abuse of privacy, and it has to be stopped immediately.

shocked · 1 year ago

I just googled myself and found my name, age, city, my husband and all his info, and also my father, even though he has a completely different name and lives in another state. That really freaked me out. How did they know he was my father? I have never even shared an address with him. None of us have ever sign up to this website. How can I get this info removed?

A. Friend · 1 year ago

Although I never joined Reunion.com, I too googled myself today and found quite a bit of information about myself on their site. Although I have not been able to find any information about a class action lawsuit based on privacy concerns, it would seem to me that Reunion.com is vulnerable to suit on the grounds that they do not provide adequate identity theft protection. Anyone looking to steal my identity, or that of anyone else who's "public" information was listed on reunion.com, could do so quite easily and quickly because they have access to complete names, ages, places of residence, etc. for free on one particular site. I believe that from a legal standpoint, this is problematic for a number of reasons which I won't get into here (yes, I am a lawyer).

My advice to those who are shocked and angered to find themselves listed on Reunion.com is NOT to contact the company, at least not yet, for a few reasons. First, their removal process is questionable, to say the least, and you will be doing nothing more than confirming that you do indeed exist and the information they have about you is indeed correct. Second, upon googling myself again (and again, and again), I noticed that the Reunion.com information moved further and further down the search results page. This leads me to believe that the company is using some sort of algorithm scheme or arrangement with Google to "test" certain names and information. So, despite the fact that they seem to have boatloads of information that they have been able to put together, and you may know that the information they have is actually correct, they still aren't 100% certain that it *is* correct and are trying to entice you (or anger you) into confirming. Third, my guess is there are enterprising lawyers out there who are already looking into this site and potential claims. It's a bad economy fueled in part by amoral decisionmaking at large corporations and private equity firms such as the ones involved here. Things like this add fuel to the fire. Given the companies and enterprises involved with Reunion.com, there are certainly funds available to provide relief to such a large class. Probably once more names, ages and telephone numbers start showing up on this site, they will come under more scrutiny and the lawyers will be contacting YOU. :) In the interim, perhaps keep track of the dates and times when you googled yourself and found your information on Reunion.com. Perhaps also monitor your credit report (as you should be doing already) to check for unusual activity that might coincide with the dates on which you found your personal information on Reunion.com.

Best wishes to all!

Upset · 1 year ago

Hello! I also googled my name like some of you have done, and found my personal info noted on Reunion.com. I too, have never signed up on the site for their alleged service either. I tired to remove the info about two months ago by using their site form (I didn't give them any other info then what they already had noted on my profile) to do so, but all that happened in me doing this was for them to post more info on my profile, like some of my family members (which some of the info they newly posted was incorrect). I don't think it's Reunion.com 'RIGHT' to collect people's 'personal information (without the people's knowledge and approval of their permission),' and then 'sell' this info to 'paying' clients who join their site to 'supposedly' use the info for reuniting with classmates, etc. As far, as the Reunion site getting people's address contacts, this might be being done by the use of a site program which grabs the info. Be careful yourself, not to give your personal information out by you putting it on your desk top or on sites, boards, in chats and, so on. Take care, and good-luck!

dkuddle · 1 year ago

If there will be a lawsuit about the privacy concerns, I will join as well. I too googled, seen, and was appalled at the level of information they collected about me. I too used the form and was never removed. Shortyl after, more information on my profile showed up. Totally unethical. Not to mention the poor people who pay for this site thinking they can contact violated people like me who isn't even a member. Isn't collecting money under false pretenses? The contacting member thinks the violated member is actually a member, and they will reach them by paying money to this site.
I am completely disgusted.

Upset · 1 year ago

Yes, I totally agree with you dkuddle, and with the other poster's comments too. They do seem to be misleading with some wording on their site for sure. I also wonder, if they'll take legal responsiblity for their actions and their part in the matter, if someone is tracked down from their site info noted, and harmed in some way or another. Yes, some of the info on people is public info (but still, as I have already mentioned some of the profile material on just mine alone isn't correct information), but still not gathered up, and presented in the way they have done so on their site. My brother and I have different last names and he's noted for me on their site. This is so really strange. They must really search deep to collect such info. Some people might rather put their past behind them to start a new life, and then they get slapped in the face so to speak with a reminder of their previous life on the net. Goodness. As I started to mention in my first post, at least 'try' to protect yourself while on the net by also (besides what's noted about protecting yourself in my first post) never saving your account numbers, or other personal info (don't even save your mailbox/s account numbers/info online. write any info you'd like to keep on a notepad off line), don't have your mailbox open while your searching or whatever online, always take brower address, account name and other personal information off of a site page when you're attending to business online, and don't forget after attending to business online close the brower page and open a new one if you want to do other business or whatever while online. Do everything you can to keep your personal info safe while you're online, but even then no one is safe online. no matter what you try to do to protect yourself while on. Take care, again.

Upset · 1 year ago

Sorry, about the wording it really should have been in my last post; always take brower address, account number, account user name, and other personal information off of a site page when you're attending to business online before you close the brower page, and don't forget after attending to business online close the brower page after removing personal info off of it, and open a new one or ones if you want to do other business or whatever while online. And, don't ever give your permission on a site to attach your address book to their site, even if you think it is to be used for contacting lost friends, relatives or whoever or whatever for (always read and be careful about giving your permission to something while on a site).

shocked · 1 year ago

I would also like to join if there is a privacy lawsuit. What this company is doing is unethical and dangerous.

shocked · 1 year ago

I googled myself again and now found my personal info next to some of my family's personal info on a site called : PeekYou. Can we stop this trend? If we let reunion.com get away with this unethical behavior other sites are going to jump in and this will be to our detriment, their profit but our detriment.

Upset · 1 year ago

The site is invading people's privacy for personal gain. The site should have gotten a signed consent form before using people's person info (meaning, whether they use it for personal gain or not), as photograpers have to do when taking pics of people to use.

GET THEM GONE! · 1 year ago

These sites need to be stopped, and I think an ex put info about me on there. I do know there is no way they could have my exact location, but they currently have my age and city correct. Hopefully, I will be moving out the country soon, but still they should not be, without verified permission from the person, posting info for anyone to Google.

Disturbed · 1 year ago

I agree with all the comments regarding the invasion of privacy. However, I do not think that an ex put you on there. I found myself and several family members. They have way to much information to have gotten that information from a person known to me. It almost appears as though the are using information from credit reports. For these people to have as much info as they do, they MUST be using social security numbers. Furthermore, you can not be assured that they don't have your exact location unless you registered. If you pay for the information, they may well be selling it.

Finally, what disturbs me most about this is it endangers victims of violence. I was stalked and had to leave the state where I lived to escape the stalker (despite my order of protection). I have been able to keep my private information and off the web, until reunion.com. This worries me it is no longer difficult for the stalker to find me.

These people need to be stopped as with other sites like peekyou.com who has actually come up with a picture of someone that I know. It was stripped from a MySpace Profile ( which does not publish his name) and has used the photo to create a profile without his permission. Apparently, it is more profitable for the lawyers and government to protect the companies violation of our right to privacy then it is to stop them.

ScrewReunion.com · 1 year ago

HERE'S THERE PHONE NUMBERS AND ONE IS A DIRECT.
Reunion.com
# (888) 704-1900
Primary Phone: (888) 704-1900
Primary Fax: (310) 571-3145

THEIR ADDRESSES
# 12400 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90025

2118 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1008
Santa Monica,
CA 90403-5784

Here's the link to names of management from their own site
http://www.reunion.com/ManagementTeam.pub

Good Luck to everyone.

against reunion! · 9 months ago

2118 wilshire blvd in santa monica is a post office box place. there are no suites - its just a po box number. Google map street view it if you dont believe me, reunion are spammers using a po box!

ScrewReunion.com · 1 year ago

Sorry there was an error when i pasted this is the direct number

(310) 571-3144

Thebackershelpcausetheproblem · 1 year ago

Interesting Info about people who have and are backing plus helping this company.

Existing backers include: Richard Rosenblatt, the former chief executive of one-time MySpace parent Intermix Media; Steve Newman, the former president of GreatDomains.com; and Andy Mazzarella, the previous chief financial officer of iMall Inc., which was sold to Excite@Home in 2001 for $425 million in stock." The new funding will go towards growth plus strategic acquisitions. Reunion.com was represented by Jeffries & Company in the deal. Reunion.com has hired Bender/Helper Impact (BHI) to handle consumer PR and brand-building efforts on behalf of its online people-connection network.

recordonlineguide.blogspot.com · 1 year ago

As technology advances, these records will be stored and made available in easier to access ways by the authorities themselves.someone can doing it simply speeds up the process.

liholea · 1 year ago

Yes, I am not even a member and they have a profile of me and my family.
I work for a corrections facility and would like my name off their list because they did not have my permission to put it on. My families and my safety can be jeopardized.
What can I do to get them to take me off.

lilire · 11 months ago

I agree. I have emailed them with a generic response and called them. They said they would remove me but have not. This is ridiculous and they have no permission to have such information. I am going to get a lawyer. These sites are idiotic because they are starting to lose so much business by all of the sudden posting information for the world to see.

Upset · 11 months ago

Yes, I agree with you lilire. This site and some others are selling personal information, saying it's for contacting friends, and family members. They say if you contact them, they'll remove people's info if wanted from their site which they aren't doing. They should be investgated and an article wrote about their invasion of people's privacy.

Upset · 11 months ago

The site (and others sites like it) should be investgated, and then if nothing else, an article should be wrote for the newspaper/internet to let people know the site, and some others are nothing more than a scam site/sites.

Infuriated 1 · 11 months ago

These people have my entire family infomation out their allowing any one to reach me. I am sickened that a company would be so desperate for money that they'd vialated my privacy with such great magnitude. This has to be taken care on a massive scale. I hate reunion.com. People don't even use the damn website for organizing reunions! They use it to find out peoples' ages, etc. Its a horrible website. But they are inpenetrable without mass media exposure.

DINO · 11 months ago

Jeffrey Tinsley IS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE REUNION.COM SCAM SITE. Jeffrey Tinsley IS A CROOK AND NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED.

Huba · 11 months ago

I wasted $60 because I was a bit desperate to find a lost friend who appeared on Google search as a member of Reunion.com. First I joined as "Free Member" but nothing happened and every time I wanted to make contact the invitation to become a "Premium Member" popped up. So I paid and still nothing happened. I wish I had read what is above.
If you are considering paying Reunion.com, give that money to your favorite charity!

Max · 11 months ago

Seems to me that Reunion.com is extracting their data from geneaolgy websites. They are somehow connected to them websites. Notice that the ages, people and family connections are listed and prevelant. I assert that someone (family member) used one of those FamilyTree builders and unknowingly submitted your identity to reunion.com

Upset · 11 months ago

Max, if this is the case, I'd think it would be more like the reunion.com site bought the info from the genealogy site or they know the owner which gave them the info for free or they possibly own a genealogy site too. Or possibly even the webmaster of a genealogy sold or is envolved in reunion.com having the nfo in some way or rather anyways.

Outrageous · 11 months ago

Unfortunately for all of us, unscrupulous websites like reunion.com and intelius.com and ussearch.com collects personal information from sources like public records (motor vehicle records, voting registries, etc.) as well as from the three credit bureaus, who are only too happy to sell your personal info for $$.
I don't recommend that ANYONE contact any of these websites (and if you look at the reunion.com privacy page, it states that they have about 20 other sister sites of different names that provide the same information online).
Contacting them just confirms your identity (as others have noted) and they require you to send them notarized copies of even more personal information in order to remove you, which shouldn't be the case at all.
A class actino lawsuit should absolutely be in the works against all of these sites that publish everyone and anyone's names, ages, and places of residence for everyone to see online.

Upset · 11 months ago

Well, they could be making it much earlier for people to steal people's idenity.

Here's a lawsuit for Reunion below:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081030_can_spam...

shylady · 11 months ago

I signed up for free with reunion.com 7 years ago, but didn't join as a paying customer. I just ignored their subsequent emails to me that "someone was searching for me." Until 2 months ago, I googled my name and found that they had posted my name, age and the city I live in, all without my consent or permission. It was the very first listing that came up on google for me! That is not the kind of information I would give to a stranger upon first meeting, let alone to the general public. I went to the reunion.com website and closed that "free account." But even after 2 months, that damned reunion.com listing with my name, age and city still appears on Google. I feel that my privacy has been violated by this company. And I hope this serves as a warning to other people to be careful about joining reunion.com and other websites of their ilk.

Upset · 11 months ago

I didn't even join Reunion, and they have my (and also my family's) profile on their site.

aaa · 10 months ago

I have clicked to join Reunion because my good friend sent me the email. But now I have a headache that it continues sending garbage emails to my address book.

Angry · 10 months ago

I too googled myself and found all of my information on reunion.com. One of the addresses that was listed for me was a friend's address that I had my mail forwarded to for only about a month. The only place I filed that address with was the Post Office. How would reunion.com have gotten that information? Thanks to everyone that posted. It appears that attempting to remove myself may just provide them with even more information. This is such a violation of privacy and needs to be stopped.

Upset · 10 months ago

Angry, that's horrible if they did get one of your addresses they have from the post office. Can't figure how they could have gotten it. Yes, I guess when you notify them to try to remove your info it must prompt them to get even more info about you, your family and so on. Really a horrible site, and could possibly be dangerous, as possibly could be making it easier to bring your personal info to the public, so therefore, easier to steal IDs, locating people who don't want to be found for some reason or rather (maybe person being by an old girlfriend or boyfriend or a person trying to start a new life, etc) etc. I agree, these arern't good sites to be on internet.

Upset · 10 months ago

I agree, these aren't good sites to be on internet.

I didn't register with the site (as I've already mentioned), not even for the free time they allow.

grrrrr · 10 months ago

So what can a person do once they have your info?

How can you let friends know NOT to get involved if your email addresses are attached to their site?
Change your email address? But somehow they will get that...
Adjust your information on the site to mislead them? Does that work?
Any advice?

Noi · 10 months ago

I didn't even give them my permission to set up a profile.

Upset · 10 months ago

Possibly if you give them false info to try misleading them, they might get upset and post even more of your personal info. It might be best to just leave them alone, and certainly don't join, not even for the free time (you'd be confirming yourself with them if you join, even for just the free time they give, as you'd be confirming the info they already have on file is correct or somewhat anyways).

Upset · 10 months ago

As I've already noted on this site, that I tried in an email to get them to remove my personal info file off their site, and they just posted more info on my profile.

Just leave them alone and don't join, and hopefully someone will start a class act against their site.

Upset · 10 months ago

Possibly if you give them false info to try misleading them, they might get upset and post even more of your personal info. It might be best to just leave them alone, and certainly don't join, not even for the free time (you'd be confirming yourself with them if you join, even for just the free time they give, as you'd be confirming the info they already have on file is correct or somewhat anyways).

Privacy · 10 months ago

I called the 800# to the reunion.com a few weeks ago and supposedly they removed my listing from their site promptly (within an hour). I had to give the person on the phone the last 2 addresses where I resided. This only suppresses my name from being shown on their website, but it will still indexed and shown as a cached (perhaps) web page on Yahoo. It doesn't show up at all on Google any more.

Now when I click on that LINK from Yahoo, there is nothing there on reunion.com's site about me. Although, when I do a search DIRECTLY from reunion.com's website on myself, it says that there is 1 possible match for me. It's possible I am still in reunion.com's directory listing. ??? I have a very unique name, so there's no chance that it is someone else. It could just be a come-on to get me to sign up.

I would hope and imagine over time that the link will on Yahoo falls off the next time Yahoo crawls the site. Who knows when that will be.

Frustrated · 10 months ago

I have never heard of reunion.com before...just found it when I searched my name. I have NEVER given any personal information, have never been to their website and am VERY frustrated that so much of my personal information is there for the public without my permission! What do I need to do now?

nas · 9 months ago

I too never signed up with them and never put any of my personal information on the internet or anywhere else.
I suspect they are getting private records and aiding and abetting identity theft and criminal activity as well. I would suggest people start calling the Los Angeles DA, State legislators and sentator and making this a real issue. IT IS AN INVASION OF PRIVACY AND PUTS PRIVATE CITIZENS AT RISK....WHO IS PROTECTING US FROM THESE INFORMATION BROKERS THAT ARE HELPING TO COMPROMISE OUR SAFETY AND IDENTITY.

Infuriated · 9 months ago

I have never joined reunion.com and have never given it permission to use my information but it has all my family and my personal information for the public to see. This is ridiculously unacceptable! It's a total invasion of privacy!

Agnes · 9 months ago

I have just signed on less than one hour ago and I am reading all these complaints,it's very upsetting. This company lured me in with the pretense that some was searching for me. I fully expected to find who the searcher was.After I paid to sign on.Nothing. Not one word.I wrote to them and they replied with the excuse that they cannot answer everyone's e-mail

spike · 9 months ago

02/02/2009
So far today the Reunion.com site will not open. ??? Interesting development and just on the day that I was going to go in and remove my info if possible.

GJ · 8 months ago

Now Reunion.com is called MyLife.com. Nothing's changed--same terrible invasion of privacy. They must be stopped.

Bibes · 7 months ago

So how do we stop them?

Clarityx · 7 months ago

Can I use this info on my blog using the direct link to your blog? Thanks in advance

Upset · 6 months ago

MYlife.com?/?/? I'm sorry, but I'm not understanding the name of their new site. Shouldn't their new site's name actually be MYliveS.com, I mean, since the owners of the site must be living all of our lives. They have all of everyone's PERSONAL info posted on their site as if it all belongs to them, and that it's all about them and their personal lives. Do you agree with what I'm saying or not?/?/?