Wanna know how much of your information is publicly available online? Go to
http://www.spokeo.com and type in your name, user ID, and/or city. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
Freaked out yet?
Rightie-o then. Spokeo offers an option to get your name, user ID, etc. unlisted. Head on over to
http://www.spokeo.com/optout and follow the instructions. Preferably for every user ID you have.
The good news is, this gets you unlisted from Spokeo, so it becomes a little difficult from anyone to look up all the information you saw when you looked yourself up.
The bad news is, that information is still publicly available, floating around somewhere in the interwebz.
The worse new is, even when you delete something, like pictures, videos, posts, or accounts, there is a possibility the files and/or information is not physically deleted from the server, and can still be accessed directly. (Or, even if they are deleted, copies of them are stored in a backup server somewhere, and still accessible by people & programs that know how to access them.)
Anways… back to lurking.
Comments (4)
wait til you meet up with radaris.com where you get 3 bits of info deleted or have to pay them…the same them that get’s their info for free… to delete public information
gotta love pay for your own security rip offs 
. they only allow judges and law enforcement folk a free pass. I’m not really on spokeo I deleted my current legal address an address ago even radus didn’t have my current address but it did have my dirth year as cross referenced to my highschool attendance and my family info as in relatives… thus it’s nottoo too hard to find my identity. not easy but not too too hard 
. clasmates .com and facebook are thee forever publish you life away places assholes.
Ooooo, scary-boo!
Its the World Wide Web … OF LIES!!
I’ve never been one to be spooked by blackmail or what the internet has to say about me or the things I’ve said on the internet. I would gladly take the opportunity to defend myself rather than let some sheepish dweeb in some backroom judge me off or some random internet content.
I’m always shocked when people learn that their information is online like that.
that’s scary.