In Minnesota, a terrorist weaponized personal information from data brokers to carry out a political assassination. Here's how you can remove your data from such sites.
It is a pain in the ass for sure! With personal privacy protection, it is important not to let perfect be the enemy of good, however. You don’t have to outrun the bear, as they say. You just need to make yourself a harder target than everyone else and hope the bear passes you over.
A comment that we've worked for years to try to have information removed, including hiring outside assistance - it is not easy, not foolproof, the data collectors work overtime and there are a lot of them.
Good advice and something we all need to be more aware of.
It is a pain in the ass for sure! With personal privacy protection, it is important not to let perfect be the enemy of good, however. You don’t have to outrun the bear, as they say. You just need to make yourself a harder target than everyone else and hope the bear passes you over.
A comment that we've worked for years to try to have information removed, including hiring outside assistance - it is not easy, not foolproof, the data collectors work overtime and there are a lot of them.
Good advice and something we all need to be more aware of.
Cloaked, deleteme, Optery and others do help. It’s an ongoing process.
Feels endless, some weeks.
Once you do the major big shift, it only takes minutes of maintenance on a regular basis.
We’ve shifted several things, get alerts… it still feels like “a lot” some days: “oh good… more of this crap”
Yes: a first-world problem, PIA (yes, I’m having a grumpy Thursday)
also:
Hushed as phone number. Proton for email, calendar, VPN. Cryptpad to replace Google world, Brave as browser and search engine.
OsmandMap instead of google or apple maps.