I stumbled across an interesting site today: Eliyon Technologies' CorporateAlumni database. Apparently, Eliyon's spiders have crawled the web connecting people with their past and present employers, and the company has put the results for about 15.4 million people into a search engine accessible by previous employer.

It's just a little bit creepy.

Some of the results, however, are quite amusing.

Now, I figured, what with my bio out there on publication sites, there might be an entry for me. And there is–a little incomplete, with a few rough edges on the parsing of the data, but it's there. So is my boss. There are some glaring holes in their content based on the sites they've apparently scanned, so their AI is still a work in progress…but like I said, it's creepy.

As a journalist, I can see this being an interesting tool. But it also raises questions of privacy, and of copyrights (especially if they plan to sell this to people). How much of your life is public record? Punch in one of your former employers, and find out.

Apple just sent me an