How websites get your personal data and how to protect yourself.
We live in a time when we are constantly worried about our safety and privacy while searching the internet. Particularly knowing that we have entered our contact and financial information on multiple websites.
Understandably, this makes people very concerned about their privacy and just how much information about them is out there and easily accessed by the internet.Data brokers collect, analyze and sell personal information about you for various purposes. Some of the sources that data brokers use to obtain data are: These are documents or information that are available to anyone by law, such as census data, voter registration, court records, property deeds, licenses, etc.
There are few laws that limit what data they can collect and how they can use it. There are also a few ways for you to control or access your own data. Some data brokers offer opt-out options for you if you do not want your data to be collected or shared. While no service promises to remove all your data from the internet, subscribing to a good removal service is the most effective way to constantly monitor and automate the process of deleting your information from hundreds of sites continuously. You can also use Google’s privacy tool to remove your personal information from their search engine. Google’s “Results about You” tool was rolled out last year.
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