Is Your Sensitive Information Safe From The Open and Dark Web?

In an age where our personal data is constantly under threat, it's more important than ever to know how to erase your information from the internet. Whether you're worried about identity theft, online predators or simply want to protect your privacy; you can take steps to remove your personal information from the web.

Remember that anything you post on the internet can inadvertently expose sensitive information. Some things to be aware of:

Many women list their maiden names on social media after a divorce or to make it easier for old friends to find them. The downside is that it makes it easier for the wrong people to answer the common security question, "what's your mother's maiden name?"

It's great to post pictures from your life, but sometimes these images contain sensitive information you may not want available to the wrong people. By default, every photo you take on your phone captures a lot of information, including shutter speed, camera type, date, time, exposure, and location. All this information is attached to the photo and contained in what's known as EXIF data. This data can be used to identify your location.

Even if the EXIF data isn't available, some sites can identify where a picture was taken through a reverse picture lookup. You can read more about this here: https://www.guidingtech.com/find-location-from-photo/

And if that doesn't work, some people see it as a challenge to identify the location of a photo using many of Google's free tools. You can see an example of this here: https://youtu.be/k-5J0kL7aRs

Now that you know how your information can be exposed, the next thing to do is identify what personal information is already publicly available. This includes anything from your name and address to your date of birth and social security number. Once you've identified what information is public, you can begin taking steps to remove it. 

Going through hundreds or thousands of sites and requesting that your information be removed can be very time consuming. However, it's vital to be thorough to ensure that all your information is removed.

If you don't want to go through the hassle of removing your personal information yourself, we at Fortified Risk Group can do it for you. After removing it for you, we monitor the open and dark web to make sure it does not show up again - and if it does, we remove it again. We know where and how to get this done correctly, and once we have the information removed, we make sure it stays that way. 

Removing your personal information from the internet can be daunting, but it's essential if you want to protect your privacy and make it difficult for harm to find you.

Security is about layers, the more effective layers we have, the more difficult it is for an adversary to cause harm. Digital Security can have a direct impact on your physical security. Be aware and be proactive about your security.

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You can trust us to keep you safe – we're the most qualified team in the business. We take pride in our work and are always up for a challenge. We want to help you be safe every day, so you can focus on what's important to you.

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