There are hundreds of sites online that provide your personal information to anybody with a web browser. “People Finder” or “White Pages” sites such as Spokeo, MyLife, PeopleSmart and Intelius , often give away tons of personal information about you:
- Name & names of relatives
- Address & aerial satelitte home photos
- Phone numbers & previous addresses
- Financial information & work history
- Age & date of birth
Not surprisingly, people often ask “How do I remove my information from Spokeo” or “How do I delete my photo and address from online white pages ?” There are two basic methods to remove your name from white pages sites like Spokeo, MyLife, Pipl, and other data collection sites.
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Removing Your Information From Spoeko, Rapleaf, Whitepages, PeekYou, PeopleSmart etc
Reputation.com has recognized that everyone from families to CEO's rely heavily on being able to control their personal information online, and in response to this has developed two services to assist in mainting your privacy - MyPrivacy & Exec Privacy. Below we'll explain both services, who they're applicable to and we'll also provide some information around manually removing your information from Spokeo etc.
MyPrivacy: Quick & Easy
MyPrivacy® is a powerful, automated tool that removes your information from many sites at once, and then continues to recheck & remove on an ongoing basis.
Step One
- Sign up for FREE here, and then upgrade your account to have automated service begin to remove
your data from a number of sites.
Step Two
- MyPrivacy will scour the Internet looking for references to your personal information. MyPrivacy automatically removes your information from Spokeo, WhitePages, PeekYou and several other online databases.
Step Three
- Through a simple point-and-click interface, MyPrivacy lets you easily remove information from many of these sites all at once. Then it continuously monitors online and automatically alerts you if your information appears in a new people search database.
- MyPrivacy also lets you to choose which catalog mailings you want to receive at your house with the new “Control Your Mail” feature. It lets you tell hundreds of companies to stop sending you catalogs and other unwanted direct mail.
- While there will always be some sites from which we will not be able to remove your automatically, MyPrivacy does work on the vast majority of sites, and can provide instructions on how you can manually remove your personal data from the rest of them. Working together is the best way to consistently combat your online private information.
ExecPrivacy: Personalized, Complete & Peace of Mind
ExecPrivacy® is a powerful personal service that goes a few steps further than MyPrivacy to ensure that your information is removed from everywhere across the internet - become anonymous, all the time.
Step One
- To sign up for the ExecPrivacy service from Reputation.com you'll need to call us at 877-258-6338 and speak with a privacy specialist. The complexities of online privacy mean that every case is different and require a custom strategy for each individual to ensue that it's tailored to meet the needs of the client.
Step Two
- Your ExecPrivacy team, with the assistance of patented technology, will scour the Internet looking for references to you or your personal information. In the situations where our tools can automatically remove your private information this will happen immediately; however there are many other websites and online databases that require a number of manual steps that the team will carry out to have your private information completely removed from these sites.
Step Three
- Through a simple point-and-click interface, ExecPrivacy lets you easily remove information from many of these sites all at once and also notify the team of any other sites that you'd like to have your data removed from. Then it continuously monitors the entire internet and automatically alerts you if your information appears in a new people search database, at which point we'll consult with you and then remove it.
- ExecPrivacy also lets you to choose which catalog mailings you want to receive at your house with the new “Control Your Mail” feature. It lets you tell hundreds of companies to stop sending you catalogs and other unwanted direct mail.
- Working together is the best way to consistently combat your online private information be readily available, as our team finds your data we'll ensure that these are areas that you want your data removed from, and vice versa, if you find websites that have your data just notify us and well set our team to having it removed.
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DIY: Free
To keep your personal information off the Internet, you’ll need to perform these steps every month as these sites constantly look for your information in new places and keep reposting it on their sites.
Step One
- .Signup for Reputation.com's FREE Online Privacy & Reputation
Monitoring service .
Step Two
- Make a list of all the sites you care about. For example, you might be concerned about sites like Spokeo, MyLife, Pipl, Intelius, Rapleaf, and others. You will need to find each site that lists your personal information, and there could be hundreds of them.
Step Three
- Find the opt-out procedure used by each site. Each site’s privacy policy is different. For example, Spokeo’s opt-out form is here and it can be completed online. PeopleSmart's opt-out policy is here and it requires verification by mail. The PrivateEye opt-out policy can be found here.
Step Four
- Afterward, go back and verify that each site correctly processed your opt-out request. Some sites might have multiple copies of your current address as well as misspellings, typos, and other errors. You may need to repeat the process several times to get
complete coverage.
- We think that you should be able to control the information that appears on these sites–and you should be able to delete information if you want to. Our goal is to help you take control of your online privacy by allowing you to remove or update information that appears in these “white pages” sites.
- That’s why Reputation.com never collects, retains, or provides any data to “white pages” and other data broker sites; instead, we help people remove it. Our mission is to help consumers control their personal information online. We hope this has helped you understand
how to remove information from MyLife, Spokeo, Pipl, Intelius, Rapleaf, and other websites.
http://www.reputation.com/reputationwatch/articles/how-remove-your-name-spokeo-peoplesmart-and-other-people-finder-sites
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