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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Is felonspy.com a big joke?

Felonspy.com is a Google Maps mashup site that claims to show you the felons in a particular neighborhood. All you have to do is type in an address.

Here is more from the site:

FelonSpy.com uses a broad array of databases, each completely legal when used individually. They are probably also legal when used together, but that answer hasn't yet come to us. Our servers compare city, county, state and federal criminal databases with telephone records to pinpoint the location of the person you need to know is living next door to you.


Interesting concept.


What's odd is how searching the same address gives you different results! Someone pointed out if you keep hitting 'begin search' with the same address, you get an animation of moving dots (representing supposed felons).

I'm sure a lot of privacy activists wouldn't be fans of this site. Others might be offended by the gun ads and snarky text.

I'm curious if anyone can verify the results are actually real? CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here