A short YouTube tutorial by Caitlin (Caitlin Sarian) explaining how to remove personal data from data brokers. The video defines data brokers (examples: Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified), then demonstrates removing a listing from Spokeo by searching a name on Spokeo.com, copying the listing URL into Spokeo’s removal form, submitting a removal request, and confirming opt-out via an emailed link.
So how do you remove your personal data from the Internet? Everyone, my name is Kaitlyn. I'm a cyber security and data protection expert and I want to help you remove your data off the Internet. Let's go. First things first, you have to get it at the source, the data broker. Data brokers are large websites that have your information and share that with a bunch of other people. Some of the top data brokers are Spokeo Whitepages benverified. By the way, I already shared how you can remove your data from the white pages. I tagged that video in the caption. So now let's move on to Spokeo. Remember to click that plus button to follow along. First you're going to go to spokeo.com and enter in your name. Then you're going to copy and paste the URL. I'm not going to show you because my URL has my name in it. Then you are going to go to this website and paste the URL. It'll look like this. And you're going to go down and press remove listing. Then you're going to get an email like this and you're just going to press the link and then you confirm that you're opted out like and follow for more cyber security and data protection tips.
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