This story is making the rounds of all the genealogy pages on FB this week. Some people are panicking, others are saying it's nothing, it's just info you can find anywhere online. My problem with it is that, unlike Ancestry or FamilySearch, it links living people to your name. Not to mention all the places you've lived for the past thirty years or more. Yes, that's all available somewhere online, but not generally all in one spot. And genealogy sites tend to be pretty careful about publicly showing living people. Except for the living people on your own tree on Ancestry, for example, you can't see any other tree's living members, they just show up as 'private.' You have to get permission from that tree's owner to see those people. 

There's an opt-out feature on this thing; I used it, and seem to have disappeared from the site, for now, at least. They're going to have to change the way they do things if they want to be a viable, useful genealogy site.

As a woman who is single, lives alone, and is dating, I am terrified that they list my address. I rent and therefore could typically keep my address under wraps pretty easily until now. I went on the site and opted out. 

I heard about this through a group I belong to that involves writing about public safety (police, fire, etc) and there was much concern about them that people could find out the contact information for those type of folks.  

http://www.familytreenow.com/optout

That is the link to their opt out page.  I just opted myself out (and Mom, hers isn't up to date but I'm taking it off anyway)

Thanks for posting this, @lawfulevil.  And thanks for posting the direct link for opting out, @clueliss.  I just opted out. I wasn't surprised to see my info, but it was much more accurate and detailed than "white pages" type listings I've found of myself.

Ha! A bunch of those "white pages" list me with my mom's birthday. That explains all the calls and mailings I get for hearing aids, medic alert systems, retirement centers, and home delivery of my Medicare approved medical supplies.  By the time I'm old enough to qualify for Medicare (if it still exists), I'm going to be so cranky about all the stupid marketing and all-out fraud that is aimed at seniors. It's so debasing and cynical.

I made sure to opt out my mom even though that was out of date post move to nursing home because her mail comes to me.