Privacy Tips
February 20, 2024
Find out what you can do if MyLife refuses to honor your opt-out request.
December 1, 2023
Discover how you can remove your personal information from people finder sites.
November 23, 2023
Whether you need to know now or later, learning how to report doxxing is important for your personal safety. Knowing who to report doxxing to can also help stop the flow of private information being leaked once someone starts doxxing you. How to Report Doxxing to Law Enforcement If you’ve b…
November 15, 2023
If you’re going to dox or “drop docs” on yourself, you’ll need a list of doxxing tools to make the job easier. In this guide, we’ll look at some of the open source (i.e., freely accessible) tools you can use to find information about yourself before it gets into the wrong hands, including s…
November 15, 2023
It might seem counterintuitive, but the best protection against being doxxed (or “doxed” or getting “docs dropped”) is to follow a guide to doxxing yourself on the internet. By trying to find information about yourself online, you’ll be able to see how easy it would be for someone else to do it &…
October 3, 2023
This guide will show you how to successfully request to delete personal data from any company or online service. Although individuals living in states or countries with consumer privacy laws will find the process the easiest, it is possible to ask companies to delete your personal data even if n…
October 3, 2023
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) exists in the European Union to protect consumer data. This comes in handy when European consumers want personal data deletion. But what about the US? This guide covers four US consumer privacy laws, including: Please note that individual states e…
October 3, 2023
If you want to know how to stop companies from selling your data, you’ve come to the right place. Although not every company you interact with or do business with will sell your data, some will. Depending on where your information ends up, this can result in more targeted ads and scams and increa…
October 3, 2023
As someone who wants to keep my personal information as private as possible, I realized recently that I should be asking: What does Google know about me? Depending on your usage of Google apps, the results may surprise you. Fortunately, you can turn off a good amount of Google’s data colle…
October 2, 2023
I really wanted to find out how to stop Google from selling my data until I learned that Google doesn’t sell your personal information per se. However, Google does share your data (and mine) with third parties. Follow this guide to learn how and why Google collects data, what it does with it, and…
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