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The other day Nextdoor (whom I will never be a part of) sent an email to my junk email acct, addressed to my deceased father, inviting him to join and listing a home address he had over 12 yrs ago. Maybe 7 years ago I made a health appt for him using my junk email address for confirmation, and a different physical address. He didn’t use a computer or a smart phone and would have no idea what Nextdoor was. So how the hell did Nextdoor connect the dots?? I looked at the message source/IP which lists Nextdoor designating the sender as SendGrid, Inc, a marketing email company. Big Brother is always watching.
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SendGrid is just a conduit through which email gets sent. Nextdoor no doubt bought or otherwise obtained the email address in question through any number of dubious methods. Sucks.
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I made the mistake of signing upp recently, because some of my neighbors apparently did. I had expected to find a super-local group, but of course it's not. But there are the expected petty suburbanite types carrying on about petty nonsense. Don't use it much.
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Our neighborhood opted for creating their own website instead of NextDoor or Facebook. Anyone can view the main page and a few general pages, but most of the site requires you to be an actual resident to access it.
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Seems there is much to beware regarding signing up with Nextdoor.
What is most troubling to me isn't that they bought my email address, which is common, but that they referenced my dad's address that he hadn't had for over 12 yrs. Perhaps the lab where I made the appt for him, sold his personal info or they were hacked. But that address wasn't on file there. Nor was a ss # given.
