PRIVACY ALERT: Info On Opting Out Of Most Major Online Information Brokerages

[Hardrock69]

If any of you feel the need to check out what info is available on the net about you,
check out this page. It has links to most of the major info sharing sites.

These sites compile public info about you and your entire family.
You will most likely see listings for every city you ever lived in, as well as many members of your immediate family, not to mention your age, date of birth, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

Pass this information around to everyone you know.

The sites says "How to remove information from Radaris.com", but the page gives you info on opting out from many other sites as well. It may take a couple of hours of work, but it is well worth it.

Fight back! Opt out of the sites listed, and you will be less likely to be a victim of identity theft or scammers:

http://radaris.com/page/how-to-remove

[Angel]

Must be a US thing. No results found.

[Hardrock69]

Good for you. You are fortunate.

[Sensible Shoes]

All the web results it gives for me are wrong. Basic info is OK, only not current. For the social website stuff, it wants big money.

[ZahZoo]

It's pretty much a waste of time and energy going to every directory site and opting out. There is no one-stop-shop.

Most of that information comes from public records that are now available all over the net. In order to stay off you best not have any utilities, phone, own property or any of that in your name. In addition don't register under any professional. social or other type of networks on the web especially Facebook or Linkedin... under your real name.

If you are that concerned about being off the grid... buy disposable cell phones with cash only. Do not own or use a credit card. Pay for everything locally via cash only. Only access the internet via free wide open wi-fi and never have any personal identifying information on an electronic device.

For anyone who's been active on the internet for the last decade... it's too late. You can't clean your footprints off the landscape.

[VHscraps]

There was an interesting UK documentary a couple of years ago about issues related to this. It was called 'Erasing David'. A guy named ... David wants to find out how much the data various companies and agencies hold about him exposes him - so he decides to try and see if he can just vanish without a trace, and hires a detective agency to try and track him down, starting only with his name.

The first thing they look for is all the digital information - or maybe they trawl through his trash looking for stuff (it's all information!) - which makes it easy to narrow down the possible David Bonds they should be chasing. He runs all over Europe, tries to go off-grid, and ends up at one point in a disused and derelict building in some remote region of the English countryside. You might be able to find the whole thing online, but here is a trailer:


http://youtu.be/INkkFpP-q5k