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Services for removing your data from public databases (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by slug@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Last year I did a major fuckup and bought a .us domain without noticing that they don't support WhoIs privacy, so my name number and address became part of the public WhoIs database scrapes. Since then my spam texts and calls have vastly multiplied. I'm realistic about the fact that the damage is done and it'll always exist out there, but I would happily pay some money to a service that sends takedown requests for the data in the public databases like LexisNexis etc. to lessen the damage. Do you know of any services that do this somewhat reliably? Or even a guide or something about doing this manually?

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[–] Creddit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Try the Hogo mobile app - they will do some of these for you for free every month or pay a month and do removals on all the sites they cover, then discontinue.

[–] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The info can be reposted after so you have to resubmit continuously.

[–] Creddit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, valid point!