A quick look at these sites and I was concerned. For me, for my family, for everyone really. The amount of information being collected on each of us and up for grabs for anyone willing to pay is astonishing!
I promise if you search for yourself on any one of these sites you will be horrified by the results. Not only did I find much of the information to be inaccurate, but it’s extremely intrusive.
Mylife, one such site, is peddling the information they gather and pitching it as “more important than your credit score.”
Some of these sites share your estimated net worth, cell phone number, physical address, and criminal records you may or may not have. Mylife assigns you a “reputation score” (pictured above) for anyone lazy enough to make a quick judgement call about who you are as a person. Maybe it’s a potential date, future employer, landlord, or even a lender.
For some this isn’t just a matter of privacy, but could be a matter of life and death. 81% of woman have been stalked by a current or former male partner who was also physically abusive, and there are approximately 1,500 murders by those abusers every year.
Online reputation is more important than ever before. I suggest you take some time (it took me a total of 30 minutes) and follow the instructions below to tell these companies you are not ok with them selling your information.
We’ll go step by step through how to remove your information from each of these sites.