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First, change your names on social media accounts and then delete the account. Second, use the right to be forgotten laws in Europe (even if you aren't Europea
by elastic_church 10y ago
First, change your names on social media accounts and then delete the account.
Second, use the right to be forgotten laws in Europe (even if you aren't European). They've got Google by the balls and at the very least you'll be scrubbed from google pages in Europe, perhaps very soon - or not - you'll be scrubbed from Google worldwide.
Third, might want to change your phone number. But at the very least, even if you have poor impulse control or are too attached to do the first step, just remove your phone numbers from your social media accounts. Uninstall those apps from your phone. Clear your cookies. The main goal is to disassociate your phone number from social. You inadvertently upload it in a variety of ways, and this is a key component to their graphs. Changing it is better because your friends upload your number anyway. Now you will have a new number and no social media profile linked to it.
Fourth, be conscious of what/where you post. Now that you won't have privacy anxiety, this will be much easier to pay attention to.
Fifth, at your leisure, send sternly worded 'remove this content' emails to any web pages that still reveal info about you. Don't do this from free email and gmail accounts, do it from more authoritative sounding domain names. But in the email, refer to yourself as "my client"
- DanBC 10y ago> Second, use the right to be forgotten laws in Europe (even if you aren't European). They've got Google by the balls and at the very least you'll be scrubbed from google pages in Europe, perhaps very soon - or not - you'll be scrubbed from Google worldwide. This isn't quite accurate. The search results are only removed for browsers within Europe. Google will only removed "outdated" or "irrelevant" search results. Google approve less than half the requests it gets for RtbF.