6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet

Depending on when you were born, there’s a good chance you’ve spent either several decades online or have never known an offline world. Countless murky data brokers that you’ve never heard of collect huge quantities of information about you and sell it on. Some, but not all, data brokers let people opt out of having their personal information processed—this also depends on where you are in the world—but the process isn’t straightforward. Privacy-focused group YourDigitalRights has created opt-out forms for 10 of the biggest data brokers to speed up the process of getting your information deleted. Get Google Search Results Updated You can’t change the way that Google displays its search results, but there are some limited steps you can take to make sure that what’s displayed is up to date and to remove harmful details, such as doxing attempts.