Quote: (07-29-2014 06:10 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
Bojangles,
I'm not in the EU. Can you really delete all your info from their searches? That's HUGE! Thanks for the tip man! Didn't know that!
Quote: (07-29-2014 04:44 PM)bojangles Wrote:
Google image search your pics and delete those profiles where they are held. If you used linked-in, make sure it's private.
Unfortunately you're in the EU, because I used google's removal service to remove all my information from their searches.
I listed a secondary email account (not my primary one) on a chat room years ago, but I later came to regret it. Although it contained no identifying information, a second chat room had used the first portion of the same email address as my chat room handle -- without my permission.
In short, I did not want anyone from the second chat room to identify the information disclosed in the first chat room by searching through Google using my chat room handle and then stumbling across my email address.
At any rate, I asked the first chat site to remove my email address for privacy reasons. They did so rather quickly. Fortunately, it was not a chat room like this one where your information remains forever.
I then asked Google to delete my email address (from the first chat room) from its search engine. There is a process for performing this function, but it takes time -- and it can take much longer than Google claims. This happened some time ago but, as a guess, Google claimed that it would take about a month, but it actually took about three months. You can Google the exact process.
There are many lessons here, but let me summarize as follows. A smart man learns from his mistakes. A genius learns from other people's mistake. In the realm of cyberspace, strive to be a genius -- because you may not get a second chance.