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ZDNet – The best online data removal services. Erasing yourself from the internet isn’t an easy or quick process, but these services can assist you.
- Google – Find and remove personal contact info in Google Search results. “When you use “Results about you,” you can find out if your personal contact info, like your home address, phone number, or email address shows up in search results. Important: Some of these features are currently rolling out for users who are over the age of 18 in the US and UK only. To request removal of a result that shows contact info for a person under the age of 18, use the detailed removal request form…”
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Wired – How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ To. “In 2022, Google launched the “Results about you” tool to help people remove personal info from the company’s search results. With billions of searches happening daily on Google, finding your private phone number or home address indexed for the world to see can be quite shocking. Luckily, new updates to “Results about you” make it easier to discover when your data pops up in Search.”
- Vice – Here’s a Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them. How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages.
- PrivacyRights.org: Links to and information about Data Brokers and opt-outs instructions. Note – this is a nearly impossible task as the data brokers continuously update their data and re-add your information without consent. Most do not permit you to remove it in the first place. There are a limited number of data brokers who sell these data to a wide range of sites who then in turn resell your data. Also, many sites will charge you a monthly or yearly fee and claim to remove your data from various sites. Buyer Beware.