外資系に勤めている人は注意が必要かもしれません。
ビジネスパーソンの人脈に関する情報を共有するspoke.comですが、本人の同意なしに勤め先会社情報などを掲載しています。
Microsoft Outlookのアドレス帳やSalesforce.comから手軽にインポートできるため、人脈情報保持者にその意図がなくとも掲載されてしまいます。
If, for example, I pressed the button for Spoke’s free service, the Spoke toolbar would install and then copy the roughly 2100 names, phone numbers, and email addresses out of my Outlook Contact database and then add them to Spoke’s database. Spoke would then be able to sell those names, titles, companies, addresses, and email addresses to direct marketing organizations. Participating in this scheme is a sure path to hell.
Boing Boing: Spoke.com is selling your friends’ Outlook address books
Boing Boingの記事にもあるように、ツールバーのボタンをクリックするだけでSpoke.comのデータベースに名前/会社名/職位/電話番号/メールアドレスなどが登録され、彼らはそれを販売しています。
当然ながら反発も多く、DiggにもSpoke.com is Evilというエントリーが載るまでになっています。
Spoke.com says it is growing rapidly. Their press release claims:
Since introducing its free service in August 2006, Spoke Software has added more than three million new contacts to its database and has enabled more than 6,000 sales and marketing professionals to improve sales productivity with higher quality, more targeted leads. With no requirement to track points, make trades or give away the direct contact information of colleagues, users are flocking to Spoke’s online business contact information database which now provides access to more than 35 million people and 900,000 companies — more than any other online business database.
This means that over 6000 sales people now have access to 35 million other people using spoke.com. If you are in the business of selling stuff that sounds like a good thing. The problem is that as one of those 6000 people you have entered into a real Faustian bargain.Get the word out! Spoke is evil!
Digg – Spoke.com is Evil …And Digg Needs to Expose Them!
私の名前もSpoke.comにありましたorz…. 誰だ登録したの…
皆さんもSpoke.comでエゴサーチを試してみてはいかが？ きっと腹立たしくなりますよ。