Not-so-privately annoyed by Spokeo

So I got an invite earlier today from one of those friends who'll sign up for just about anything, directing me to Spokeo.com -- a site that purports to keep track of my social-networking site activity. Not a priority for me on a busy weekday, but now I'm going to have to make it one. You see, a few hours after the original request, I received the following e-mail from the company:

As a courtesy, we are notifying you that Spokeo users have found the following accounts for you:

axxxxxxx on Flickr
axxxxxxx on MySpace
axxxxxxx on Picasa
axxxxxxx's Wish List on Amazon
axxxxxxx on Pandora
axxxxxxx on Stumbleupon

[Usernames elided to protect what little privacy I've still got.]

If you would like to make these accounts private, please
change the privacy settings on the original network and
Spokeo will update its search results to reflect your changes.

Wow, really? That's a courtesy you're providing there, Spokeo? And now I can feel free to dig through six services and try to guess which privacy settings apply to your social-graphing activity? Thanks so much, and I'm glad I actually have to know this stuff for a living; what'll only take me 15 minutes or so would doubtless take civilians rather longer. (Amazon really, really, really would rather you look at anything else than your privacy settings on their service. That or the navigation in that section was mapped by tipsy chimps. Not ruling anything out.)

According to the Spokeo privacy pages, "Spokeo aspires to help you stay on top of [the] information revolution." But if this Mountain View company actually aspired to not cheese off Web folk whose only crime is having friends with too much time on their hands over Spring Break, their game needs work. Even if you're too knowledgeable to be shocked by the amount of data about you that can be scraped from the Web, the site's cavalier attitude toward helping one extricate oneself is sloppy stuff.