Data Brokers (like whitepages.com) make it easy for anyone to find all of your personal information (emails, phone #s, addresses). Read on to learn how to get them to stop showing your records.
Hi Janet, that’s a great question. My perspective on this is no, it’s not a waste of time. Information on the dark web isn’t easily accessible by anyone with a browser or a credit card, and information that is out there now will become stale, and therefore less valuable over time. So the sooner you start making your information harder to find, the better off you’ll be.
Here’s a quick example to illustrate my point. Let’s say that phone number 123-456-7890 is tied to you in the darkweb as of today. Let’s say you take steps to get more private like removing your information from data brokers, and getting a secondary phone number that you start using instead. What will happen is that the records tying you to that 123-456-7890 will become older and less reliable.
What if your information is already on the dark web? Isn't a waste of time and money trying to get your information removed through a removal company?
Hi Janet, that’s a great question. My perspective on this is no, it’s not a waste of time. Information on the dark web isn’t easily accessible by anyone with a browser or a credit card, and information that is out there now will become stale, and therefore less valuable over time. So the sooner you start making your information harder to find, the better off you’ll be.
Here’s a quick example to illustrate my point. Let’s say that phone number 123-456-7890 is tied to you in the darkweb as of today. Let’s say you take steps to get more private like removing your information from data brokers, and getting a secondary phone number that you start using instead. What will happen is that the records tying you to that 123-456-7890 will become older and less reliable.
Thanks, Tate. Good points.