Caitlin Sarian shows how data brokers sell your personal details and walks through opting out on PeopleLooker. She recommends Incogni to automate removal across multiple brokers, including internationally.
PeopleLooker (peoplelooker.com).
Search first and last name on peoplelooker.com → find your name → press 'Proceed to opt out' → enter email → send verification email → confirm request.
Incogni.
Your name, address.
Phone number and date.
Of birth are all online for everyone to see. Here's how you could delete them. Hi, I'm Caitlin. I'm a cyber security and data protection expert and I want to help you protect your data online. Let's go.
The way you have to do it.
Is delete the data from the source, which is the data brokers. And the data brokers get this information from free apps, games, loyalty programs, purchase history, public records, government records. They go all into the data brokers.
And then they try.
To target you for free. Specific things that you like. For example, if you recently got divorced or a new mother like to drink.
And that's why you.
Get tailored ads. What people don't realize is that these data brokers are public information. So you can literally search for anyone with their first and last name and.
Get all this information. And before we continue, make sure you hit that follow button.
For all the cybersecurity tips. Today we are talking about People Looker, which is a large data broker. Go to peoplelooker.com and type in your first and last name and hit search. Then find your name and press Proceed to opt out. From there, put your email address in and press Send verification email and then confirm your request. If you don't feel like going through.
Every single.
Data broker manually, which honestly takes forever because there's hundreds of them, I use a company called Incogni. I'm tagging them below. I partner with them because I literally use them for all of my personal use and they're international. So if you're not from the US this works for you too. There's no way I can stay up to date with the amount of information gets put out on the Internet. Comment and cogni and I'll send you.
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