Ah the ole "Streisand effect".
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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So what do you about it?
It depends on your goal.
If you want to prevent cops from using information about you in data brokers’ dbs, yes it’s worth your time.
If you want to keep from getting scammed or duped or have accounts open in your name then yes.
If you just feel worried then probably not, just freeze your credit with the reporting agencies and schedule a temporary unfreeze when you want to apply for something.
No matter what you decide, rotate the passwords to each account you’re worried about to a new unique one.
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?
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.
You could poison it with junk info. Make it useless.
This is surely one of the best option but its time hungry to setup, read this reply: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 What do you think?
I don't think that's very effective these days. There are so many sources of publicly available information for sites to verify against that this attempt at "poisoning the well", so to speak, would be drowned out.
Like moat things I do, I recommend trying half-heartedly. It seems like it's bothering you at least a little, or you wouldn't have posted about it. Try, and if it's too much work don't worry about it, but at least you tried. it's the rare person that doesn't have any personaly info on the web. Even rarer the person who's data hasn't been leaked by PSN, OPN, T-Mobile, or hundreds of others.
For sure datas are everywere and will maybe try to remove it, but (as said to another person) what do you think about this: https://lemmy.ml/comment/18649355 Thank you
Removing your data as a normie won't be flagged. If you're a celebrity, yea, you'll may hit the Sreisand Effect. But as a normie, nah, plenty of people remove their data for a load of reasons all the time.
thx
I was notified about 3 or 4 breaches just last year, some from companies I’d never even heard of but had my info.