Comment by nunez
5 months ago
People search engines do a lot of the heavy lifting and can give you that data on a platter for a few dollars. I pay for a service that employs people to periodically do data removal requests with them. It's not great that _they_ have a bunch of data about me, but I'd rather it be in one place that tries to safeguard it than in a bunch of places all over the Internet. (There are A LOT of people search engines.)
As for using clues to discover people's whereabouts and such: lots of police/detective shows have turned "finding where people are through Instagram photos" into a meme. Most people don't think about cybersecurity outside of "oh, I need to change my password now."
> I pay for a service that employs people to periodically do data removal requests with them.
Curious about any recommendations from you or others.
> Most people don't think about cybersecurity outside of "oh, I need to change my password now."
Cyber anonymity is a concept that most people don't think about at all, especially post-Facebook normalization of real names ~10s.
In many ways, it feels like Eternal September talking to younger people who never used a pseudonym online.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Vi38ZtHTyR0_LFEz-ON...
Data might be a bit stale, but a helpful resource imho.
I use justdelete.me. $120/year, deletes all your info from 400+ people search engines. Works pretty well.