So glad this was helpful, Tay. I know what you mean - it felt like a high price up front.

Thanks, Nick! I appreciate you bringing this to my attention to check out.

No problem, glad this was helpful!

Good to hear. Let me know how it goes for you, Thomas.

Thanks, Warren! Yea, it will take a few weeks or maybe even more before Google removes the search result from their database. It depends on how often their bot crawls that website.

You can also request to Google manually to remove cached indexed information also.

@@simuman How do you do this?

@@BKLNsF1nest you can find google contact info by googling.

I held off on using them for years, b/c someone who used to work at one of these places said they send customer's sensitive info offshore, and the manual work is done there (India? The Philipines?). This is how they keep the price competitive. He also said these companies have been hacked. I think it's a good service, but definitely Risky.

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Thanks we were using reputation defenders in the USA for about four years and they were charging us for $49 a month and it went up to $59 a month and it was impossible to cancel that subscription. They kept on saying you have to speak to a person that’s assigned to you and nobody would get back in touch with us so we’re gonna try this service... 🙏🏽.. Nobody should be able to have access to your personal information that way I think America is nuts for allowing that

Affiliate links are agreements that allow you to make money. Dishonest semantic.

In todays world as we know it, nothing is secure,the hackers seem to be a head of all these companies,example At&t had a data breach.seems all these security companies mean well. Scary world,,

I was thinking the same

I mean yeah... It's risky, but there's also no other way of doing it honestly.

Except, you don't give them *all* of you data.

You don’t give them all your data your driver’s license you can black out also they only ask for general info already known I literally put in my name date of birth ( dont worry no social SS needed) and they pulled up everything about me it was insane old phone numbers addresses family friends crazy shit

Need help?

Glad it was helpful, Tony!

Yea, I know what you mean. It's the price we're now paying for being so naive early on in our Facebook lives :) For what it's worth, I published a video about your data on Facebook (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gttlrKSXy53cgH0.html) but the end result is that it's easier to just remove it from public view than to actually delete it. Unless you're willing to delete your entire Facebook profile.

Brokers do get paid for the data (not by DeleteMe) and they sometimes do re-add your information when they happen to scrape it again from a different location.

Yea, it’s nice to let someone do it who knows what they’re doing.

That's a really, really good question. And I don't think there's a definitive answer to that. A lot of people trust Apple. A lot of people adamantly don't. A lot of people trust trust Facebook. A lot of people adamantly don't. In the end, for me it's a combination of transparency, history and communication. In this case, I know who runs DeleteMe, they've been around for many years without issue, and they communicate via email and social media well. Until one of those breaks down, I'd rather put my trust there than in these data brokers.

Great Question, Great Answer. Thanks!

No, it seems to be pretty transparent on their website.

That's great. I'm glad you're getting your info removed.

No, that's right. And I apologize I didn't make that more clear in the video.

Not a bad idea. I do it for my family members as well.

You need help?

Any site that is based in the US, the EU (from GDPR) or associated countries is required by law to honor removal requests.

Yes, it is. Authentication is simply a mathematical algorithm, so you can use as many as you want.

Great point, Ryan. And while you're absolutely right to be worried about who you give your data to, you have to remember that the data you are providing is already freely available on the internet. It's also not your ID or financial information.

Glad you enjoyed it, Octavia!

The wealthy are the people who own these data sites.

Unfortunately no. These data scraping companies are constantly scraping new data.

Unfortunately no. This won’t help you now, but for the future I suggest you start using a virtual mailbox address as your “giveaway” address.

@@AllThingsSecured Yes we have this and one use it for essential mail. We are moving and don’t use the USPS address update “service” witch makes things only worse. However the new occupant will keep receiving all the junk mail intended for us 😩

@Mac Expert There's a service that removes you from junk mail, I forget the name but you can google. I used them and it works.

Great question. I don't think it will. That kind of work is something a reputation management company would get into, but it's much more expensive and time-consuming.

Core Dream Studios; I suggest your friend put a security freeze on his Lexis Nexis/Sage Stream credit report and request a copy of your report, do it via certified mail, do not do it on the phone or online. Lexis Nexis/Sage Stream are collecting all public records from the courts to county records, and they supply this info to Transunion, Equifax and Experian. As for a felony I believe the law says they can only go back 7 years, so if its 10 years old you should have no problem removing it from lexis Nexis.

Yea, I hadn't thought of that particular use case, but you're right. Thanks, Whitie!

Yea, that is a bummer

I was so happy when I got help deleting bad reviews at *ABCHACKERS⨀COM* after fallen to so many scams. Thanks so much.

I think it should work with the phone number registries, but when it comes to Google searches, that's a completely different animal. There are entire "reputation firms" that work on stuff like that and it's not cheap since it's a very manual process.

@@AllThingsSecured thank you. I’m new to this field. I think the number registries is enough I think.

Not only for the USA. Try this: international.joindeleteme.com The ATS promo code still works there too, I believe.

Mostly your name, address, phone number, family relations, age, court records and other such personal info.

Glad I read this comment. Thx!

I showed a portion of one of the reports in the video. What more are you looking to see?

It's super-frustrating that they can make it so complicated to request your PERSONAL, IDENTIFIABLE information to be removed.

@@AllThingsSecured Companies ARE the biggest Data Brokers.

I know someone that can help... Let me know if you still need the service

Yea, sorry I failed to mention that in the video.

Because by the law, data brokers don't have the right to spread anyone's personal info. If they refuse, you can take them to court, and you'll win the case.

There is no single law and it changes from state to state; however if you ask a company to remove your info and they do not they are always going to do it so they don't risk getting sued. They don't care, they have billions of records and hardly anyone requests to stop. Sometimes they will do updates and re-enter your info and you will have to request it taken down again, but if you request they have to take it down in most areas.

The FCRA governs many (NOT all) of these sites and its a federal law.

They just go to a ton of sites and opt you out of their services. Like taking yourself off whitepages but they do it with a shit ton of websites

Why’s that?

You mean Abine? It’s a company based in Boston.

They show stuff like your address

That's awesome! There are definitely ways to do it manually, although now you have to KEEP doing it because new websites pop up and the data brokers continually buy your data again. So just make sure you schedule time to go through and delete it all again in a couple months.

@@AllThingsSecured I did this myself a few years ago also, wasn't too bad. But I'm sure I missed something that deleteme would easily find.

Never heard of it. What is it?

If that's your threat model, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. But for everyone else out there, "giving your information" that is already freely available on the internet is hardly scary. What's scary to me is allowing that information to remain out in the open.

@@AllThingsSecured Definitely, but Americans should wake up and get these privacy laws changed. I should have to opt in to my public facing internet record instead of some service scrapping it and doing it for me. Further, I should be in charge of its accuracy and the information it displays. Lastly, that listing should be regulated such that I can take it down just as easy. There should be a single source of truth that’s accurate. Not 1000 partially accurate fragments competing for a purchase of me!!! (isn’t it sick just saying it? - I never put myself up for sale. It is no better than Human Trafficking, and I believe - it’s all same people) Some might feel strange about this, but we really have done a crap job of updating our privacy laws to protect ourselves - EU has GDPR, and we have DeleteMe - a business!!! In fact, the only real privacy protection is for businesses, you know, those agreements we never read when using the software, but allows them to walk away guilt free and harm anyone they want. (And the victim becomes the one to blame) We can access information and each other too quickly for it to all be available to the world. (Whereas my mother’s “white pages” were out of date by the time it hit my doorstep, and it took 7 minutes to find just a name, blah, blah) Anyway, that’s my rant. I’ll quit bugging you, but I’d personally avoid this service and instead petition your congressman and/or senator. Also, if you have access, talk you your local law enforcement agencies to get an idea of how to handle such issues. Keep reporting to federal agencies, and then some!

@@diomedtmc2124 The only way it's legal for companies to post our private info online, is because we are given the option to opt out. It's a loophole, the system is broken. This should be illegal, period. There's a young woman in Calif. who helped draft legislation to protect women's rights (after she was assaulted at her university) It passed through congress unanimously and is now law. If legislation were drafted to protect people's privacy, it should pass through congress easily, especially with ID theft a huge issue now.

? If deleteme assisted the data brokers then nobody would want to use deleteme. It would make no sense for deleteme to remove your data and then somehow bring it back once you stop paying. That's asking for negative reviews.

@@coolmoviescool But youd have no way of knowing they're doing that.

Oh for goodness sake 😝 I'm giving them only the information that is ALREADY freely available on the internet and asking them to make requests to take it down. It's a pretty simple concept.

It’s interesting to me that people think this is a scam. If this information is already freely available online, why should DeleteMe care if I give it to them to have it removed? What do they gain?