We polled 1,000 anonymous web users on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about data brokers in September 13th, 2012. Ninety-five percent of people said they thought they should be able to remove their personal information from being publicly displayed on data broker sites, also called “people search sites” or info brokers. The one-question multiple-choice poll read, “Companies [...]
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11 Tips For More Online Privacy
If you’ve got only a few minutes, you can drastically improve your online privacy with these 11 tips. Why do just 10 when you can go to 11? 1. Be careful on social networks. Almost everything you say and do on social networks is public by default. Post with caution or a pseudonym. Facebook has [...]
How to delete yourself from Spokeo.com
An expanding market for personal information has prompted growing concern about privacy. Anyone can run a simple search for your name, city, and state to reveal a number of data mining websites eager to share and sell your private data. Such easy and immediate access to personal information poses a number of privacy and security [...]
How to delete yourself from BeenVerified.com
You probably haven’t heard of people search websites, but they know a whole lot about you. Also called “data brokers,” these websites make a business of collecting, publicly sharing, and selling your personal information on the Internet. In this post, I’ll show you how to delete personal information from one of the largest people search [...]
Why DeleteMe is a subscription service and not a 1-time thing
We get a lot of questions from customers about why DeleteMe is a subscription and not a 1-time sweep of deletions. The reason is quite simple: your personal information often repopulates once we remove it. A simple way of thinking about it is that your DeleteMe operator removes your record, but new information is generated [...]