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Remove Yourself from Google
Prying eyes leave you exposed in this digital landscape
Stalkers, snoops, and fraudsters all rely on Google in their quest for self-satisfaction. Erasing your private information will make your life easier in this digitally changing world. Not letting people find you too easily should be one of your priorities. There’s a reason why people don’t want their name in the phone book – solicitors, marketing firms, telemarking – all the nuisances from the past still exist in 2018. The reasons are the same in 2018 as 1990, phone books and Google leave your private information open to the public, but Google does it at a much wider scale and scope. You simply don’t want to be listed online.
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Being easy to find online is great if your old friends and co-workers are looking for you, but not so great when a crazed ex or stalker falls in love with you. The stories you see about cyber stalking are certainly real. If people can be obsessed with hobbies, then they can also be obsessed with people too. Stalkers and crestfallen exes fall into this category. Block them on your cellphone and they Facebook you instead. Block them on Facebook and they start emailing you. Once you create a new profile, email address, they’re onto you. Most likely your private information is being leaked onto search engines or your accounts might even be compromised.
Stalkers are relentless online because creating a new account is free and easy. Most online companies allow them to do it because it boosts their quarterly report of how many new users signed up. Very rarely do online companies do an IP ban and completely block someone from accessing their website. The more time stalkers spend using Facebook or Google, the more money is made by their advertising and analytic partners. Even stalkers take a break from stalking to watch random videos and like product pages. Facebook and Google are smart enough to know when someone exhibits stalking activity, but these companies let it slide in exchange for more personal data on you and your stalker.
Think about it, if Google and Facebook really are advanced as everyone thinks they are, wouldn’t they have some algorithm to automatically track and stop block stalkers? If a stalker sends 500 messages to someone, but the recipient doesn’t reply once, isn’t that a big red flag right there? Someone that won’t stop Googling your name probably isn’t up to anything good either. Facebook and Google collect data extensively and mine it for billions of dollars. They can say that there’s no way to know what constitutes stalking behavior, but they know you and your stalker’s online habits better than anyone else. Every click, inch scrolled, video watched, and message sent is collected by their servers and analyzed. How can they not know what is stalking? It takes a stalker to know a stalker. There’s a reason why Google and Facebook are referred to as “Big Brothers” of the internet.
Private eyes and data brokers can lend a shady hand
Stalkers could even be buying this information from snooping private investigators or data brokers – a buck’s a buck to people who buy and sell information. It doesn’t really concern them who’s buying or why. As long as the payment clears, then the information can be sold and resold to whoever’s asking. Most online snoops and data brokers are pretty much professional stalkers. They search, compile, and then advertise your personal information as a product.
Don’t let them profit off you. Cleaning your internet footprints should be done regularly to protect your private life. Like footprints in your house, your internet footprints tell people who you know, how many people you know, and where you’ve been. Even things like your shoe size, preferred name brand, and gender can be gleaned off physical footprints. Imagine how much more information is available about you online from your digital footprints. Stalkers can follow your digital footprints all the way to your physical front door. This has and will happen again as privacy wears away due to the internet. Regain your privacy by using a service like Wiperts to fight back against these bad actors.
Why people cyberstalk
Psychologist Dr. Emma Short told BBC that cyberstalkers seem to be quite isolated and have a lack of social support, which could be a result of it falling away because of the amount of time they are online. Dr. Short also said that people who have an internet addiction are at particular risk as they can lose touch with the real world and find it harder to form relationships, which equates to more time invested in online relationships and then ultimately fixation.
Even if contact is never made, obsessively searching and compiling information is not a good sign. When obsessions reach a certain point, action will be taken, and in this sort of scenario, the action will almost always cause harm to another person. Having your personal information online will allow stalkers to find you more easily. The more private information available, the deeper into their obsession they will go. Keep out of their sights by hiding your private moments. Using a service like Wiperts can help.
It’s strange to think that someone who has never met you can become obsessed, but the power of imagination is frighteningly powerful. Your shared moments on the internet become their daily fantasy. They imagine themselves as the picture taker or somewhere unseen in the photograph, but definitely there next to you. Truly a separation from reality, as you’ve never met them before in your life, but they know so much about you.
Sadly however, the people most likely to stalk you are people from school, work, or local establishments. Targeting someone nearby is easier than someone faraway. Ideally, you want to be hard to find online even in your own town. After all, most people only want to know people in the flesh. Having online friends is great, but we never truly know who is behind the screen until we meet them face-to-face.
