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Same gambit as the 'ol, "There's been a credit card database leak! Enter your credit card number to see if it has been leaked!"

They do have a data set for the name, for the address and one for the ssn and a huge ones for your email and IP address.

Now you just gave them a unique user ID to tie it all together.

Yeap. And the US laws are such that once your details are known to a company in the US jurisdiction, you have basically no rights or recourse for what they can do with your details (ie sell them). I only know this as a friend is in law school researching & writing papers in this area.

(IANAL.)

I had precisely the same reaction in the comments of the article. http://t.co/g6LpJvdGzL

This reminds me of the fake IQ quiz games, where if you take the test, you fail.

You'd think one of the leaders in the personal data broking field -- online and off -- would be able to go about this a bit less ham-fistedly.

But I'm also surprised as many hacker newsers have submitted their info as it sounds. So, if hamfisted works, hamfist.

This "service" seems extraordinarily twisted.

Yeah, fuck that noise.