Taking proactive steps to protect the privacy of yourself and your family has never been more important than it is today. Buying and selling personal data is now a big business, with hundreds of data brokers devoted to doing exactly this.
Trying to manually remove your family’s data from the web is incredibly difficult, but fortunately there’s a very simple alternative in the form of Incogni.
It seems hard to believe that data brokers are allowed to buy and sell your personal data, but despite occasional talk of legislators or regulators intervening, right now it’s a perfectly legal business.
In the best of cases, your family’s data will be used to target you and other family members with personalized ads. In the worst of cases, it will be used by scammers to attempt identity theft and other forms of fraud.
The law does allow you to opt out, but doing so manually is no easy task. You have to identify each of the hundreds of different companies holding your data, and then jump through all of the hoops they deliberately create to make it as difficult as possible for you to successfully issue a removal request.
Even when you succeed, there is nothing to stop them subsequently buying a fresh batch of data with your family’s personal details included, so the process is a never-ending one.
Automate the process with Incogni
Incogni is a data erasure service provided by the company behind Surfshark. The company does all of the hard work for you, contacting more than 250 data brokers and people search sites on your behalf, and issuing demands for the removal of all of the personal details of each family member.
The process is fast, effective and not just a one-off procedure. Once your family’s data has been erased, the company continually monitors for it reappearing in any of the new databases made available, and it issues fresh takedown notices – all without you having to do a thing.
The results? All of your family members will receive far less spam, junk mail, and robocalls. Additionally, they will be well protected against scammers using their private data to attempt identity theft and fraud.
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