Google your name plus the words “phone number”, “email address”, or “address”. Do you see your sensitive personal info on data brokerage sites?
Google has a tool to request a takedown of that info from Google itself (but doesn’t remove it from the other sites).
Steps for Google removal request:
- click the three vertical dots next to the Google results you want removed
- click "remove result"
- click “it shows my personal contact info”, following remaining steps
Sometimes Google approves the removal, sometimes they don’t.
The info still exists outside of Google.
There are tools available to remove details on the data brokerage site itself over time including @deleteme!
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A very useful timeline of NSO group’s involvement in multiple govs.
Linha do tempo super importante p quem quiser saber mais sobre casos já reportados do uso de spyware para perseguição de ativistas e jornalistas.👇🏻
Instagram user? @mattburgess1 points out: "Other than deleting the app completely, there’s very little you can do to stop IG from tracking your behavior on its platform, but there are things you can do to limit it." Here's how: https://t.co/lnsheVlcue
What's clear from the reaction to this most recent privacy policy change is that WhatsApp shares much more information with Facebook than many users were aware, and has been doing it since 2016. https://t.co/vrwfrXBmes
exemplo do que pode rolar em tempos de #LGPD: em 2016, dados de 57M usuários de #UBER foram roubados. #CSO [Chief Security Officer] "comprou" hackers pra ESCONDER o rolo; o CEO sabia. AGORA, o CSO está sendo PROCESSADO pelos federais por encobrir o lance: https://t.co/g5j3x3HaSr.
@leostein@BenLudmer É o padrão 6em7 atacando novamente em seu 2° lançamento anual, tipo manada. Agora, descobriram os bots do FB/Messenger, Telegram... e afins
Tracking Apps are Unlikely to Help Stop COVID-19
We have said from the outset that location-based contact tracing was untenable, but that the concept of “proximity tracking” — seemed both more plausible and less of a threat to privacy https://t.co/G59dPGQiNT
If you're starting your 1L year in a few weeks, this short and free article might help you: "How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students." https://t.co/mnDsKPBrKB
Our final panel of day 1 at #IGFUSA is titled "Should online platforms moderate and be accountable for user-created content?"
Sounds fascinating, huh?! Watch it here: https://t.co/Fy424IALC9