Rocky Kathuria

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[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

"how do i remove my information from the internet?" — the honest answer, because most guides skip the hard part.

step one: search your name and city. note which people-search sites list you — Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, Radaris, and dozens more. step two: file each site's opt-out, one at a time. step three: wait days to weeks.

step four is the one nobody warns you about: check again, because they re-list you. new public records get pulled and you quietly reappear.

that's why doing it by hand rarely sticks. it isn't one task — it's a standing one, across hundreds of sites, forever.

the only honest scoreboard: search yourself, and over time, see less of you there.

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[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

the part that radicalized me wasn't my own address online. it was my relatives listed next to it — people who never signed up for anything, pulled from public records and sold. your privacy is never just yours. it's a map to everyone attached to your name.

@ghostmydata — see what a stranger can pull up on you

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i removed myself from these sites once. weeks later i was back. that's the whole game: they re-ingest public records and you quietly reappear, and you'd never know unless something was watching for you. removing once is bailing a boat with a hole in it.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

your home address is probably sitting on a people-search site right now, next to your phone and your relatives' names. you never posted it. someone compiled it and listed it for anyone to find. the unsettling part isn't that it's there. it's that you've never looked.

→ see your own. @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i removed myself from these sites once. weeks later i was back. that's the whole game: they re-ingest public records and you quietly reappear, and you'd never know unless something was watching for you. removing once is bailing a boat with a hole in it.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

your home address is probably sitting on a people-search site right now, next to your phone and your relatives' names. you never posted it. someone compiled it and listed it for anyone to find. the unsettling part isn't that it's there. it's that you've never looked.

→ see your own. @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i build a privacy product, so i figured i knew what was out there about me. then i searched my own name the way a stranger would.

i found myself on Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified — and a dozen sites i'd never heard of. old addresses. a phone number from ten years ago. my relatives, listed by relation like someone had drawn a family tree of my life without asking any of us.

none of it was hacked. it's legal, public, and quietly for sale — assembled from public records by companies most people can't name.

the part that stays with you isn't that it exists. it's that almost no one has ever looked. the people with the most to lose are the ones who've never once seen what a stranger can pull up in ten seconds.

if you've never looked at your own, that's not a reason to panic. it's a reason to look.

@ghostmydata — see what a stranger can pull up on you

[ghostMyData @GhostMyData]

the reason a scam call sounds legit before you've said a word: your details were compiled and sold cheaply on a people-search site. take away the raw material and the call falls apart. that's what removal actually buys you.

→ see your own file. search ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i removed myself from these sites once. weeks later i was back. that's the whole game: they re-ingest public records and you quietly reappear, and you'd never know unless something was watching for you. removing once is bailing a boat with a hole in it.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

your home address is probably sitting on a people-search site right now, next to your phone and your relatives' names. you never posted it. someone compiled it and listed it for anyone to find. the unsettling part isn't that it's there. it's that you've never looked.

→ see your own. @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

the part that radicalized me wasn't my own address online. it was my relatives listed next to it — people who never signed up for anything, pulled from public records and sold. your privacy is never just yours. it's a map to everyone attached to your name.

@ghostmydata — see what a stranger can pull up on you

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i removed myself from these sites once. weeks later i was back. that's the whole game: they re-ingest public records and you quietly reappear, and you'd never know unless something was watching for you. removing once is bailing a boat with a hole in it.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

your home address is probably sitting on a people-search site right now, next to your phone and your relatives' names. you never posted it. someone compiled it and listed it for anyone to find. the unsettling part isn't that it's there. it's that you've never looked.

→ see your own. @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

Comcast. Lakeview Loan Servicing. two data-breach settlement postcards in my mailbox in two months — different companies, same form letter: your data got out, here's a few dollars.

i didn't click a bad link or reuse a password. i was a customer once. that was enough.

but the postcard is the part you can see. what it doesn't warn you about: weeks later that same leaked name and address quietly resurfaces on people-search sites where anyone can look you up — and you're the last to know.

most people never find out where they're listed. that's the part worth losing sleep over — not the postcard.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

your home address is probably sitting on a people-search site right now, next to your phone and your relatives' names. you never posted it. someone compiled it and listed it for anyone to find. the unsettling part isn't that it's there. it's that you've never looked.

→ see your own. @ghostmydata

[ghostMyData @GhostMyData]

when your information gets published, the people attached to your name come with it — partners, parents, kids, listed by relation. protecting your privacy means protecting them too. it's all one map, and right now it's public.

see what's out there about you — search ghostmydata

[Rocky Kathuria @Trail7Rx]

i removed myself from these sites once. weeks later i was back. that's the whole game: they re-ingest public records and you quietly reappear, and you'd never know unless something was watching for you. removing once is bailing a boat with a hole in it.

search your name. start at @ghostmydata

[ghostMyData @GhostMyData]

data doesn't stay removed on its own. brokers re-post it as new public records get pulled. so the honest version of this isn't "we removed you" — it's "we keep removing you, every time you come back."

→ see your own file. search ghostmydata

[ghostMyData @GhostMyData]

when your information gets published, the people attached to your name come with it — partners, parents, kids, listed by relation. protecting your privacy means protecting them too. it's all one map, and right now it's public.

see what's out there about you — search ghostmydata

[ghostMyData @GhostMyData]

most people have never seen their own file — the one a stranger can pull up in the time it takes to type a name. address, phone, age, relatives, all compiled from public records and sold. you can finally look at yours. that's where this starts.