removing private info from websites (mylife.com, intellius etc.)
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Anonymous
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I was innocently googling myself and found a detailed description of myself on mylife.com with my name, age, sex, address, and phone numbers (correct info) and my religion, income, race and relatives' names (incorrect info).
Just a PSA for those who want to remove their info from these search engines. This article has really useful information on how to get it done. (I spent 20 minutes doing this now tonight instead of posting on DCUM). https://medium.com/@tamaragane/how-to-remove-your-information-from-sites-like-mylife-77f89aff1aff |
Anonymous
| Thanks for sharing. I need to remove my information too. |
Anonymous
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I wonder where they're grabbing some of this information from. I get that they are getting home price etc. from tax records, perhaps some things from Facebook but my mylife profile had me listed as African-American and Christian I'm not either of those things.
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Anonymous
| Good luck. I’ve been trying to get my info down and some sites flat out refuse. I’d pay to have someone else do it for me in a heartbeat. |
Anonymous
How is any of this private information? Remember when the phone book used to have everyone's address and phone number? This has never been considered private. |
Anonymous
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OP here. I sent a request for removal to privacy at mylife.com and they sent back an email within an hour saying it would be gone in 8-10 days.
Intellius has an optout page, where you enter it and it sends you an automatic thing that the info will be down in 2-3 days. Will follow up and see that things get taken down, but if they do what they've committed to do, this isn't a painful process. |
Anonymous
They aggregate public information, and probably buy some stuff too. So if you give our your email etc, they tie all the stores you shop in (and probably what you buy) and create a profile. It's not from one source. Every time you swipe a rewards card etc, this type of information is sold. |
Anonymous
The phone book never had my religion, age, income, race and relatives' names. And in anycase, mylife.com had much of that information incorrect, so it was bad on two levels. |
Anonymous
| I saw that article today on my Firefox page and did everything the author suggested and it worked well. There was accurate and inaccurate information from what I could see - also many addresses listed. |
Anonymous
| I wonder about this though. When you opt out of these mining sites through their privacy settings...are they being mined by some other 3rd party rackets? So you opt out with your name, email, phone and sometimes other personal info and by just typing this info, it projects out to cyber universe. And on and on it goes. |
Anonymous
| If you go to the sites themselves there's a link for your info to be removed. I did this and no longer show up in searches. |
Anonymous
OP here. Bumping this up two weeks later to document my experience. My information is gone from mylife.com, intellius and spokeo, so I'm happy with that and it didn't take much time at all to remove my info from each site (maybe 5 minutes each or less). However, I found a new sites called whitepages.com, publicrecordsnow.com and instantcheckmate.com where my info is still residing, and having been trying to remove my info there as well. It's worth taking a look at the information these sites have on "you" because I was shocked at how much written on the Internet about me was wrong (probably taken from someone else with a same/similar name). |
Anonymous
In general, how much would you pay for this? (I've thought about offering a service like this. ) FWIW, if you have a kid who is even somewhat internet savvy, get them to do it for you. That's how I learned-- doing these sorts of things for family, etc. |
Anonymous
| Thank you. I will do this today. |
Anonymous
| I’ve done this while ago with different website but I’m having s hard time removing info from Whitepages. |