- ZDNet – The best online data removal services. Erasing yourself from the internet isn’t an easy or quick process, but these services can assist you.
- Google – Find and remove personal contact info in Google Search results. “When you use “Results about you,” you can find out if your personal contact info, like your home address, phone number, or email address shows up in search results. Important: Some of these features are currently rolling out for users who are over the age of 18 in the US and UK only. To request removal of a result that shows contact info for a person under the age of 18, use the detailed removal request form…”
- Wired – How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ To. “In 2022, Google launched the “Results about you” tool to help people remove personal info from the company’s search results. With billions of searches happening daily on Google, finding your private phone number or home address indexed for the world to see can be quite shocking. Luckily, new updates to “Results about you” make it easier to discover when your data pops up in Search.”
- Vice – Here’s a Long List of Data Broker Sites and How to Opt-Out of Them. How to get off of people search sites like Pipl, Spokeo, and WhitePages.
- PrivacyRights.org: Links to and information about Data Brokers and opt-outs instructions. Note – this is a nearly impossible task as the data brokers continuously update their data and re-add your information without consent. Most do not permit you to remove it in the first place. There are a limited number of data brokers who sell these data to a wide range of sites who then in turn resell your data. Also, many sites will charge you a monthly or yearly fee and claim to remove your data from various sites. Buyer Beware.
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Daily Archives: December 10, 2023
DoorDash can pick up and return your packages for free. Here’s how
ZDNet: “With the holiday shopping season in full swing, online shopping is an easy way to get through your gift shopping list without leaving the house. If anything you ordered doesn’t meet your expectations, instead of leaving the house to make the return, you can ask DoorDash to do it for you. DoorDash offers a… Continue Reading
Cut the noise. Get real answers from real people
“GigaBrain scans billions of discussions on reddit and other online communities to find the most useful posts and comments for you.” Continue Reading
Leading scholarly database listed hundreds of papers from ‘hijacked’ journals
Science: Scopus is giving suspect, non–peer-reviewed papers unwarranted legitimacy, researchers say: “Scopus, a widely used database of scientific papers operated by publishing giant Elsevier, plays an important role as an arbiter of scholarly legitimacy, with many institutions around the world expecting their researchers to publish in journals indexed on the platform. But users beware, a… Continue Reading
FTC Warns be skeptical about QR codes
The Verge: “The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned the public against scanning any old QR code in a consumer alerts blog last week. Naturally, the warning comes down to security and privacy — bad actors can put QR codes in inconspicuous places or send them via text or email, then just sit back and wait… Continue Reading
Archival Records of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions
CRS – Archival Records of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions Updated December 7, 2023 – “Congressional offices and committees receive, generate, and process many paper and digital files in the course of their work. Archivists preserve some of this historical material, which can help inform future Congresses and researchers studying congressional history. This report is intended… Continue Reading
‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in Freshwater Fish, Yet Most States Don’t Warn Residents
KFF Health News: “…But in recent years, he has been wary about a group of chemicals known as PFAS, also referred to as “forever chemicals,” which don’t break down quickly in the environment and accumulate in soil, water, fish, and our bodies. The chemicals have spewed from manufacturing plants and landfills into local ecosystems, polluting… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 9, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 9, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on… Continue Reading
Care Post-Roe: Documenting cases of poor-quality care since the Dobbs decision
New Data Show Nearly One in Five US Abortion Patients Are Traveling Out of State for Care – December 2023 update – The Guttmacher Institute has released new data from the Monthly Abortion Provision Study, which tracks monthly estimates of procedural and medication abortions provided in the formal US health care system. In addition to… Continue Reading
Is DRM evil?
The Long Tail: “EFF organizer, BoingBoinger and Wired contributor Cory Doctorow, perhaps the best-informed person I know on the subject of Digital Rights Management, argues that Wired should be taking a more activist stance against it: Wired seems to be a little soft on DRM these days; the recent Wired spin-off, Wired Test, featured page… Continue Reading
