CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

Post by noir_lord » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 10:04 AM UTC

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SteveGerencser wrote: post #27

A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…

The lesson for the modern ago. Don't put stuff into digital form if you want privacy! Some places don't allow use of smart phone. They actually ask you check your phone into a coat check type thing at door! One journalist friend often leaves the smart phone at home.

Post by crispyambulance » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 10:44 AM UTC

dheera wrote: post #94

j-bos wrote: post #17

This kind of thing feels better left to trusted 1st parties, oneself. Link to a list of data broker opt out methods: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

I used Onerep until I was told it was shady. I now use Optery ( https://www.optery.com/ ) which is a YC company. I'd love to hear if there are any issues with it. The problem is there are 200+ data brokers out there and I don't have time to deal with that many.

Post by mdiesel » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 10:48 AM UTC

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akira2501 wrote: post #42

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Your data is sitting in an unencrypted excel spreadsheet somewhere as it moves between entities. Good luck. Your best bet is what the government minister mentioned elsewhere in this thread did. Generate noise. So much noise that none of your "PII" is even remotely accurate. You can't hide, but you can paint an incredibly inaccurate picture.

> You can't hide, but you can paint an incredibly inaccurate picture. How do you reasonably do this? You would have to spend an incredible amount of effort creating fake data everywhere, without having any clue if what you're doing is even working. With new AI tools and technologies it's likely that someone with enough resources and motivation would be able to filter out the signal from the noise anyway. I currently…

Post by zarzavat » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

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The former British prime minister executed a similar technique to hide his scandal by releasing search-engine chaff. He had a press interview where he claimed one of his hobbies was painting miniature red buses, and the scandal he was hiding was false and distateful ads on a (real) red bus as part of a campaign for Brexit.

TIL: > For example, the disaster surrounding London’s new Routemaster city buses disappeared into the depths of the web after Johnson made completely nonsensical statements in the media about building model buses from wine crates. Coverage of these statements triggered a flood of search queries on Google that displaced negative search queries and Google Suggest results related to Boris Johnson. > Research showed that…

Post by reciprocity » Fri, Mar 15, 2024, 11:22 AM UTC

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I don't understand the logic. They're more private for admitting that they don't respect your privacy?

Microsoft and Google don't even try to hide the fact they will siphon your data, whether you like it or not. You can turn off some of the egregious siphoning, but that's about it. Mozilla meanwhile claims to be the champion of digital privacy, marketing Firefox as the private browser of choice along with a host of ostensibly privacy products such as VPN, all the while also siphoning data. Turning it all off requires…