Deleting Personal Information About You On The Internet

The book I read to research this post was Deleting Personal Information About You On The Internet by Jim McNab which is an excellent book which I think I downloaded for free from kindle. Jim has worked as a private investigator and knows a heck of a lot about tracing people online. This book is intended to help you protect your privacy on the internet and also avoid misinformation being spread about you. There is a free site called zanosearch where you can check things like someones current & previous addresses. They make their money from advertising. Several civil liberties groups are trying to have it shut down but that could take years. You can opt out of their searches by clicking privacy at the bottom of their page but you also have to prove who you are, which means scanning documents and sending them a copy. A company called intelious will do a detailed search for $39.95 which will even tell you the area of their dwelling in square metres. Their is probably a lot of information about you on social networks and it's quite likely your friends have given mentions about you. Obviously if you no longer use a social network you should delete your account. You should try googling your name and any variations of your name. Try putting your name in speech marks, use the add symbol and also put your location in speech marks and do a search. A trick among criminals who change their identity is to pick a common name so as to make the investigators job more difficult. You can also search for any email addresses you have in google. Another option is google alerts which alerts you about a specified subject each time anything appears on the web about it. The specified subject can be your name or email address.