Well, I am trying to remove all my personal information from the interweb. Read about a site called "Deleteme" and figured someone here knows more about this than me.
Kinda scary I can find my address, and family members fairly easily.
Well, I am trying to remove all my personal information from the interweb. Read about a site called "Deleteme" and figured someone here knows more about this than me.
Kinda scary I can find my address, and family members fairly easily.
Removing ALL personal data from the web is not really a thing you can do. Services like the one you reference will gladly take your money to hide your personal information on SOME data aggrgation sites while you continue to pay, but not all. Nor will they have any affect on the underlying data sources those sites are pulling from.
Why is having your address on line scary?
You'll never get it off the internet.
If you think what a Google search can show you is scary, don't look into XkeyScore.
Yeah, it basically can't be done. There's a lot of stuff that has always been public record but was just a PITA to look up because you had to go to city hall or wherever and dig through a pile of records. Now they're all online and searchable. Computer tech is good at reducing transaction costs, and that has both positive and negative aspects.
The two best ways to be anonymous online are to either have a name that's so common that nobody can tell which John Smith is you, or shared with someone super famous so that the first 20 pages of hits on Google are all for the William Gates who founded Microsoft and not you. Unfortunately that's kind of hard to achieve after the fact.
How about attempting the opposite?
I wonder... could you flood the databases with enough garbage data about yourself that it basically became impossible to figure out what was true about you?
Hmm....
SVreX said:How about attempting the opposite?
I wonder... could you flood the databases with enough garbage data about yourself that it basically became impossible to figure out what was true about you?
Hmm....
All the Mike Smiths of the world already have this going for them. And in 15 years, the Braydens, Aidens, Kaydens, etc of the world will be right there with them.
tjbell said:Well, I am trying to remove all my personal information from the interweb. Read about a site called "Deleteme" and figured someone here knows more about this than me.
Kinda scary I can find my address, and family members fairly easily.
There used to be this book, where they would publish everyone's name, phone number, and address. Everyone died, and had everything stolen, if I remember correctly.
Be hard to jump on that genie's head hard enough to get it back in the bottle.
Need to reset your banking password? Enter your date of birth, mother's maiden name, your high school mascot, and what color your dog is.
Can't remember it all? Check your Facebook, it's all there.
Asking how to remove information on the internet, on an internet forum is counterproductive.
93gsxturbo said:SVreX said:How about attempting the opposite?
I wonder... could you flood the databases with enough garbage data about yourself that it basically became impossible to figure out what was true about you?
Hmm....
All the Mike Smiths of the world already have this going for them. And in 15 years, the Braydens, Aidens, Kaydens, etc of the world will be right there with them.
I have a namesake in England who was wrongly convicted of beating a hooligan who attacked him to death. My name doesn't come up too quickly, and then its generally just local racing results.
Sometimes its good to be boring.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
The first hit on my name is a guy in England who was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl. Count yourself lucky.
In reply to SVreX :
Oooh...
Cannot be done, people are constantly adding you back and you are adding yourself in unknowingly all the time.
The guy who comes up for my name is a Scottish Minister with an even fuller beard than I have.
I was apparently a doctor. I didn't survive Y2K.
As unique as my name is, I'm pleasantly surprised by the lack of information available. Sure the basics are there, but last I checked the only thing other than name and number was a star I got a girlfriend a decade ago. Not even a picture. This forum has really helped dilute this username on search results as well.
Anyone here from Europe that has the new data protection laws ?
It would be interesting to know if that allows removing yourself and your info from certain websites,
My namesake is an evil soap opera character so it’s tough to find much about me; but if you ask nicely I’ll tell you anyway.
I googled my father’s name once & was surprised by how much info is out there, beyond just the random census/telephone/address info you’d expect. Especially since he died in 1995, 3 years before dialup was available in our area.
AAZCD said:Need to reset your banking password? Enter your date of birth, mother's maiden name, your high school mascot, and what color your dog is.
Can't remember it all? Check your Facebook, it's all there.
I often see people on forums asking those kinds of questions (what's your favorite ______) and wonder if they're just mining for password info. Everyone does jump in and tell them, though.
I don’t come up on the first 10 pages of google. It starts with obituaries for other Wallace Millers, then some interviews with the Wallace Miller that was a coroner in Pennsylvania on 9/11, then Rusty Wallace’s Miller Ford.
I read my obit a few years ago, and I have a very unusual name. A little more digging turned up a photo and he even looked like me! Beard was a little shorter, and he was 10 years older and in Montana, but still kinda creepy. Anyways, I'm dead....So who cares what someone else finds about me on the internet!
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