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Despite the fact that the Internet remembers everything, deleting accounts remains one of the strongest means against basic intelligence on you. It seems that this is a trivial topic, but there are several important nuances:
Before deleting:
- Request the service to upload your personal data by GDPR. This will help in the next steps and give you an understanding of what the service knows about you.
- Rename your account, delete/change photos, wait a few days. This is necessary for indexer sites and search engines we managed to update the information about your account, and subsequently you could not be found by its latest copy. Also, do not forget that from now on you cannot leave any comments and messages publicly.
- All old comments/tweets/messages it is advisable to delete. There are mechanisms in social networks and messengers that allow you to reach you even after deletion: mentions (a link to your profile that looks like a name), a mark of authorship, reposts/retweets. It's worth getting rid of all such leads.
- Update the search results by asking them to reindex your modified page (Google) and wait for a while so that other systems that save information from social networks will also receive a new version of your account.
After that, the account can be deleted using the platform's built-in tools.
Not in all services, deletion is possible by regular means. Or it is hidden so deep that it is impossible to find it. Fortunately, there are auxiliary sites with information on how to retire.
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JustDeleteMe - an excellent directory for platforms, gives links and a description of the necessary actions, shows the complexity of removal. The creators also have related sites JustGetMyData and JustWhatsTheData to fulfill paragraph 1 above.
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AccountKiller - removal instructions for a large number of sites, mainly Western.
Even if you couldn't find the removal instructions for the site you need, don't despair. There is always an opportunity to write to support and request the deletion of your account according to GDPR.
Google offers a number of different forms through which you can request the removal and updating of content in search results.
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Removing outdated content from search - well suited for pages that need to be reindexed (see above point 4 about deleting accounts).
Brief instructions for deleting your data from popular services - Have I Been Pwned, Leakcheck, IntelX, etc.
To make requests for services that are interested in storing your data, you need to prepare a complete list of all the information that you want to clean up. It should include:
- nicknames
- phones
- emails
- addresses
- car license plates
- government identifiers (passport number, social security number, taxpayer identification number, full name, etc.)
- any data from leaked database records.
The Eye of God has implemented an automatic request to delete personal data in the menu item Account bot:
TeleSINT provides an opportunity hide yourself from the search, send alerts if they try to find you through the bot, and also view the list of those who were looking for you. Unfortunately, this requires a paid subscription.
In the Personal Data Processing Policy of the service said:
The period of processing of personal data is unlimited. The User can withdraw his consent to the processing of personal data at any time by sending a notification to the Operator @Quick_OSINT_support marked "Withdrawal of consent to the processing of personal data".
All requests for deletion are processed manually, it is necessary to fill out an application for blocking data from publicly available sources with full passport data, the bot's address, as well as identifiers for blocking, and then send its photo or scanned image to the Operator. The data will be deleted within 7 days.
To hide data about yourself in the bot Insight necessary:
- to have at least ₽1000 deposits for the entire time from the account
- contact @tginsighter with a request to delete your data
To hide data about yourself in the bot Zernenda necessary:
- press button "Remove your data"
- send your contact for verification of account in the bot
- send requests with details what information about you from which databases could be found
In GetContact, it is possible to arbitrarily disable the display of names that are known by your number, or disable the search altogether.
To do this, follow this link and log in via messenger, then turn it off.
It should also be noted that in this section of the site you can track search queries by your number. If you disable the search, this feature is lost as well as receiving notifications about finding you from the app. However, when you log in to the GetContact application again, this feature is returned.
