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In today’s digital age, personal information is made easily accessible because of the internet. By searching for someone’s name on Google, you can discover almost all of their personal data like age, phone number, address and even their family’s information. Fortunately, there is a new service that allows users to erase all of their personal data from the net and take their privcy back. Business Insider explains:

Your information is for sale to all kinds of different entities.

Thankfully, there's an easy way to remove it from the places where companies harvest it.

Safe Shepherd has been helping people protect their privacy since being founded in October 2011.

For a very agreeable price of free, the web service will help you take your info off the grid. 

http://tinyurl.com/9l5jqo9

Make sure you sign up with your legal name, or you'll have to delete the account and resign up as it won't scan again for 30 days.  Only the basic service is free, but if you refer five people you can get a month of premium access to remove advanced information, among other bonuses.  I'm actually surprised how common my legal name is, even with a middle initial, just in the surrounding environment.

Also of interest for improving your Google password security:

http://tinyurl.com/8rnkmsh

Have you done this, and has it worked?

Figuring It Out wrote: Have you done this, and has it worked?

I didn't find anything for me specifically at the basic level, but three entries didn't provide any identifying information so I blocked those anyway.  It seems simple enough as it's probably just automated opt out requests to the database keepers.

I also recommend this service to get off junk mail: https://www.catalogchoice.org/

I just signed up and am now looking forward to receiving my mail today to opt out of a few things - thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations, MG!  This junk mail service is dearly needed at the Wolf den.

Safe Shepherd: I had 8 records at basic level and 33 records at premium level.  3 are clearly related to me and 9 have my full name but no identifying information.  Out of those 12, 2 want photo ID uploaded to remove, but you can black out the photo and identifying number as they only want the contact information.