DISQUS

Baal Young · 2 years ago

What about my privacy and information accuracy?

I live in China and I don't know this website at least.

Adam G · 2 years ago

And venturebeat's logo is original?

Matt's reviews of chinese startups are consistently negative. And no matter what the startups does, he finds a way to bring the Chinese government into the story. I'm wondering if its ignorance or xenophobia.

Rulepark · 2 years ago

Accuracy of the info? China have the biggest chinese community, if it really can find the person, it is pretty eerie. Nothing is hidden then. A tool allows by the China who encourage cencorship in the internet, that is not internet freedom, afterall.

John Doe · 2 years ago

Dude, first off, you commenters seriously need to sharpen your modern lingo skills. I am still trying to piece your comments together.

Second, anytime you have a website providing free information on individuals without their consent, you are probably going to be disliked, especially by democratic bloggers and socialists governments.

Third, I follow the venturebeat blog thoroughly and I have not seen any biased views by the author.

In short, good luck monetizing your product and I would suggest you refer to the invisible case study on Zabba search.

David G. · 2 years ago

Does Ucloo generate controversy and raise eyebrows of some democratic bloggers and socialists governments? U bet!

Does Ucloo's business model (if anything that will make money for the site) make sense? Most definitely!

Web/Internet identity/reputation is a field that sooner or later will be touched and torched. Besides, all information summarized about a person is readily google available. I do not see why democratic bloggers and socialists governments should jump up and down against a service putting those information together and easily being searchable. Of course, Ucloo can definitely do more to ensure accuracy and legitimacy of information, and truly bring SN and sustainable revenure into its BM.

Matt is actually helping the company get funded. Already, it created BUZZ, good or bad, among venturebeat users and maybe caught some sour eyes of sleepless VCs...

Rational Beaver · 2 years ago

Meh. If it uses a spider to gather the data then it can be manipulated. All you have to do is change the data sources which are, presumably, things that you or your company put online in the first place.

Calvin · 2 years ago

In a market where verifying your identity (clear and accessible credit histories, academic transcripts, criminal records, employment records, etc...) is a more urgent challenge than hiding who you are, Ucloo could actually be a boon to individuals and users. The key will be the opt-in, opt-out ability that users will have. Just because the data is already out there, doesn't mean that making it more searchable isn't a sea change. That's the company's value prop after all.

If privacy rights are your primary concern, you might want to re-consider a)living in China, b)investing in China.

And if I'm not mistaken, quite a few American jurists (ahem, Supremes) take a view that there is no fundamental right to privacy ether.

Leon · 2 years ago

People search engine (PSE) is a wonderful service if, and only if, the profiled individuals' privacy is fully respected. I applaud Ucloo for allowing the profiled individuals to remove their contact information. But that is not enough.

Failure in addressing privacy concerns may in the long run limit PSE’s potential. To be successful, a PSE should encourage people to post their profiles by respecting their will and privacy instead of making them feel fearful of the service.

If I want to search John Smith or Ming Wang (a popular Chinese name), how many of them will show up? I suppose if you don't know much about someone already, it can still be difficult to find any info about that person.

Mel Hones · 2 years ago

http://www.USPublicRecords.com

http://www.BackgroundCheckDirectory.com

Lisa H · 1 year ago

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