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Wasting time online, I did a search for my name and it's scary, it's actually giving ALL my info. (age, address, photo of home, etc.) - is there anyway to get rid of this?
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Originally Posted by Flamingo13
Wasting time online, I did a search for my name and it's scary, it's actually giving ALL my info. (age, address, photo of home, etc.) - is there anyway to get rid of this?
Depends on the site you're seeing the information. A lot of info is public because some local governments choose to publish that information. Some is public for other reasons.
In general, no. You can't get rid of enough of it to matter. Public records are used to populate a lot of that info.
If it got to be a problem for me, I would probably change my name to Joe Smith or John Jones, get a P.O. Box and have every utility account made out with a cat as the primary account holder and me as secondary.
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The amount of info is not really frightening. One should understand that once something is posted, it stays there forever, and is easy to search. For everyone.
The property information will always be there because it is considered public info. You may get individual web sites to delete your info, but the next time they get property records, yours will likely be there. You can close your account with probably any site where you have one, or never join in the first place. If you have a land line, having an unlisted telephone number helps get rid of a lot of those issues.
Since you are American (presumably), your public info will always be somewhere online. You can get your name removed from some people search engine sites, but your name will eventually pop up elsewhere. There is some of it you can change or modify, but not all of it by any means.
If you show up on social media indexed people search sites, then you can modify your social media accounts by removing pictures, full name, etc.
I've looked into this. As others said, it's fairly easy to get your info removed from some sites (just contact them) BUT it is likely to come back on. You have to check it every few months. On other sites it is almost impossible to get your info removed. I haven't found ways to contact them or if I do, they don't reply. I am furious that my home address is on multiple websites for anyone to see, I understand property records are public but I also thought we had a right to privacy, that someone can't post my personal information without my consent. A government website and spokeo are 2 completely different entities. One has the right to my info, the other does not.
You could pay reputation.com $1000 to remove it from everywhere.
After you got rid of all the info about you you'll need to find all the phone books and destroy them.
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