I need your opinion on this problem:
My personnal infos are on the web, is it better to try to have them removed or simply ignored it?
Basically I’m wondering if trying to remove it would not make me shine outside of the crowd more than juste leave it and act as simple citizen
And, warning, these infos are not compromising but they are personnaly infos
Ah the ole “Streisand effect”.
So what do you about it?
Like moat things I do, I recommend trying half-heartedly. It seems like it’s bothering you at least a little, or you wouldn’t have posted about it. Try, and if it’s too much work don’t worry about it, but at least you tried. it’s the rare person that doesn’t have any personaly info on the web. Even rarer the person who’s data hasn’t been leaked by PSN, OPN, T-Mobile, or hundreds of others.
You could poison it with junk info. Make it useless.
It depends on your goal.
If you want to prevent cops from using information about you in data brokers’ dbs, yes it’s worth your time.
If you want to keep from getting scammed or duped or have accounts open in your name then yes.
If you just feel worried then probably not, just freeze your credit with the reporting agencies and schedule a temporary unfreeze when you want to apply for something.
No matter what you decide, rotate the passwords to each account you’re worried about to a new unique one.