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Remove personnal infos or keep it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I need your opinion on this problem:

My personnal infos are on the web, is it better to try to have them removed or simply ignored it?

Basically I'm wondering if trying to remove it would not make me shine outside of the crowd more than juste leave it and act as simple citizen

And, warning, these infos are not compromising but they are personnaly infos

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you, to be clear these datas are not really compromising but it's still datas and I don't want them on internet. My point of view was, is it better to leave it and fake that we are a "normie" (sorry for the word, a little bit negative..) and that I don't care about being there or to try to remove it. My argument is that trying to remove it would make me shine like a glowstick by saying that I care bout it. What's your opinion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Again, it truly depends on who you want to avoid sticking out to.

If you don’t know that or don’t feel comfortable articulating it then I can’t help you.

I can’t just give a detailed explanation about what you might decide with regard to even some of the broad categories of entities that might hold, access, search or compile data about you and leave it up to you to figure out which person concerned about which entity in which circumstances you are because there’s a lot of circumstances around that and it would be unreasonable to write all that out and it would still be too general to be useful.