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Check out Redact( https://redact.dev/ ).
Thanks for the tip! Miss google on the services
From the redact.dev FAQ page:
Why don't you support anything made by Google or Apple? At this time, we are reliant on both Google and Apple to be listed in their respective app stores. As such, we have been advised that in order to remain in good standing we should not offer support for these services.
FWIW, I've been scrubbing my social profiles. LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook, etc. Barest of bones. Removing all connections, photos, posts, personal details. (I know the damage is already done. The aggregators never really delete anything.) Why not just out right delete my profiles? I'm squatting. To ensure they're not used as socket puppets. After a beloved coworker passed, their profile got highjacked. Ten years later,…
How do you scrub your Facebook profile? There aren’t good tools for it. Facebook itself only lets you do it one post at a time in their activity log. Their constant design changes have broken extensions that used to help you do it ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m... )
FWIW, I've been scrubbing my social profiles. LinkedIn, Yelp, Facebook, etc. Barest of bones. Removing all connections, photos, posts, personal details. (I know the damage is already done. The aggregators never really delete anything.) Why not just out right delete my profiles? I'm squatting. To ensure they're not used as socket puppets. After a beloved coworker passed, their profile got highjacked. Ten years later,…
I’ve been doing the same. The potential downside risk of having LinkedIn/Facebook/Instagram profiles just keeps growing and growing. I’m a complete ghost on the Internet. I have Google alerts set up for my names and email addresses, and I regularly attempt to docs myself to find any leaks. I also can’t understand why anyone in the public eye doesn’t completely sanitise their social media profiles. The amount of peopl…
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You can set your profile to only be viewable to connections or second degree connections
You can also "hibernate" your account to disable it completely until you log in again. I just did this; my go-forward strategy will be to resurface and collect connections anytime I switch jobs, then hibernate it again when I no longer need it. That way it can serve its only real function of being a face for my job applications, and can be made invisible all other times.
An actual data leak from a breach would contain password hashes and private messages.
It means somehow, people can access that "leaked" data anyway, either with APIs or by paying LinkedIn
The biggest issue: you cannot not give them your personal data that they then loose. Let me contribute with an anecdote from yesterday (slightly off-topic but I promise to get around to it at the end). So just yesterday I needed to create a Microsoft account to try out Teams which is supposedly free. (I have avoided it so far, but my GF has been asked to use it for an interview and we wanted to do a tech test run bef…