Recently, I have been looking in to protecting my privacy online. I started with google searching my name. Tons of stuff comes up, a lot of which identified me as ME. There are tons of sites that help find information on you and show how to remove it from specific sites. Here is a good article to start with "How to opt out of the most popular people search sites". After having followed this and several others, I recently decided to google myself again. Up comes BeenVerified. It's not so easy because you can't just search their regular page for yourself. You have to go to their "opt out" page and search for yourself there. Be aware that if your name comes up in several different states, you will have to remove them too. However, you wont be able to use your same email address. If you don't have more than one email address, sign up for others in order to remove all of your own names in whatever state you may have lived in.
Another issue that came up was Linked in. Even though you would think that your information would only come up for linked in community members, there it was in google search. To remove linkedin search information from a general google search:
1. sign in to linkedin and click on the "Me" dropdown in the top ribbon, then "Settings and Privacy" under the "Account" section.
2. Under Privacy, click on the "Change" link on the right of "Edit your public profile".
3. In the right column, scroll down until you see the "Edit Visibility Section". If the "Your profile's public visibility" button is "On", click it to turn it "Off". Note that if you don't mind showing some of your details to the public, there are specific buttons you can click on to either show or not show those details if you leave the main public profile button turned on.
Another issue that came up was Linked in. Even though you would think that your information would only come up for linked in community members, there it was in google search. To remove linkedin search information from a general google search:
1. sign in to linkedin and click on the "Me" dropdown in the top ribbon, then "Settings and Privacy" under the "Account" section.
2. Under Privacy, click on the "Change" link on the right of "Edit your public profile".
3. In the right column, scroll down until you see the "Edit Visibility Section". If the "Your profile's public visibility" button is "On", click it to turn it "Off". Note that if you don't mind showing some of your details to the public, there are specific buttons you can click on to either show or not show those details if you leave the main public profile button turned on.
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