{"id":1421,"date":"2019-06-19T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2019-08-21T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T14:01:53","slug":"1421","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/19\/1421\/","title":{"rendered":"A DISTURBING SOCIAL EXPERIMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, here\u2019s a\nsocial experiment I tried this morning. I decided to see just how much\ninformation I could find out on a random person. As the car in front of me had\nsome interesting bumper stickers, I picked it. I did not see the driver\nwhatsoever and only recouped the license plate. That was all the info I had to\ngo on other than what was visual about the car and inside within eyesight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what I\nfound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the National Registry, I found out the owner of the car, the make, model, year purchased, how paid. I found out his personal identification number, his mother\u2019s maiden name, his married status (divorced), ex-wife\u2019s name, and nationality. I already know that, since his license plate number ends in 3, that he’s not allowed driving within city limits on Tuesdays due to the weekly vehicle-usage restrictions so I’ll know when his car’s at home unattended and when he’ll be travelling by other means. From there I searched him out on social media. I found pics of him, his girlfriend, and his children. (who, smartly, did not have their faces shown) Now, he\u2019s a former photographer who\u2019s now trained in the field of behavioral psychology field (as his car has a bumper-sticker \u201cpsychologist and proud of it!\u201d), as is his live-in girlfriend\/wife, who specializes in working with children and high-risk youths in the same field. She also has a conflict resolution specialization so I figured, coupled with the psychology, this might be a hard \u201cmark.\u201d I found out her name (they\u2019re not married), both of his children\u2019s names, sexes, and their general ages. (one, the girl, is at least 3 or under due to the child-seat in the car and the \u201cbaby on-board sign, knowing a little about child-seat\/age rules here), boy around 8. I found out the general area where they live and the exact areas where they go back-and-forth from points of work. I found both cell numbers and the company they\u2019re subcontracted by, including their own offshoot companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here I\nfound him on a heritage\/geneology site and, not wanting to open an actual\naccount and pay money, I went the general synopsis route and scraped together\ninfo stumbled across pertaining to his family tree. His father died in 2012 at\nthe age of 51. He was divorced in 2012 as well. (connection?) I found out his\ngrandparents\u2019 names and mother\u2019s age as well. Had I paid for site-entry, I\nwould\u2019ve found out his last 2 known addresses for census and voting purposes,\nlikely opening the door to find his new and current residency, had I been\ninclined and motivated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, what\u2019s the\npoint of all this? It took me one hour. From someone who\u2019s generally quite\nguarded and has a restricted online profile, who pays attention to behavioral\nissues, who blocked out his personal information, children\u2019s identities, and\nrestricted his content. One hour. From a license plate number. Don\u2019t think that\ntotal strangers can\u2019t find out a ton about you that you don\u2019t think they can,\nin a minimal amount of time, with the smallest of information. Orwell was onto\nsomething\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, here\u2019s a social experiment I tried this morning. I decided to see just how much information I could find out on a random person. As the car in front of me had some interesting bumper stickers, I picked it. I did not see the driver whatsoever and only recouped the license plate. That was … Continue reading A DISTURBING SOCIAL EXPERIMENT<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}