Disappear from the Internet
There passed nearly two decades after mass invasion of users into the place known as World Wide Web. Today, several years later, many think: and whether not too they left many marks? The idea of tracking of our steps in the digital jungle and their erasings is represented too ambitious, almost incomprehensible.
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Professional help
To cope with the accruing information stream and to timely destroy it, people can address to the relevant organizations, for example, in ReputationDefender in the city of Redvud. Using several partnership agreements with Direct Marketing Association and with some of the most known retrieval services of people, such as Spokeo, WhitePages and PeopleFinders, ReputationDefender can delete personal information with probability from 80% to 90% from all on-line commercial databases.
Services of ReputationDefender stand from $9.95 to $10 thousand, depending on amount of information about the user in Network. In the presence of time and patience, of course, the person can be engaged in all this also. But it will be quite difficult.
The first and most uninteresting step is to remember and to list all Internet services and the companies which could store information on you. What websites of people used to purchase something for what services he subscribed and what agreements adopted - all this need to be considered.
More difficult will be to find all enterprises and the organizations which store information on users, in the majority even not suspecting about it. Besides, it is possible to address Internet Archive - non-profit organization which contains copies of records of websites and other digital content - to delete all information which they have, and to try the luck with Library of Congress which purchased all archive Twitter, since March, 2006 several months ago.
Date brokers
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has the list date brokers who can be guides for all who wish to leave the Internet. Today are in the list the 115th date vendors, nearly a half of which offer certain terms of a total or partial failure from digital presence, sometimes only at observance of certain conditions. And the following dilemma consists in it: even if the person is capable to define each company and the organization which stores data on him, then not the fact that there will agree to delete its data. Based on the experience, Fertik says that some database operators are more available, and some are not present. All resist usually for one reason - the companies consider these data the property.
Though many social networks will hold a death grip the copy of each comment or the user's photo, ever published, services like Web 2.0 Suicide Machine offer rationalization methods on removal of your digital content from the different websites, such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn. According to the website Suicide Machine, its softwares use more than 4000 users for destruction of the network profiles on social networks. Meanwhile, in some advertizing networks, such as Lotame, BlueKai, eXelate, Bizo, Safecount and Rubicon Project, it is possible to refuse preserving of personal data. Some search systems offer similar options of failure.
Desperate measures
At last, there are also extreme measures. The person can leave the Internet, and information on it will simply become outdated (untimely information is ranged below in search results). Such cardinal measures as change of a name or moving are also possible.
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