Info@wiperts.com Scammers finding personal information online and targeting homeowners Homeowners and the elderly are in particular favorite targets of unethical scam artists. They have multiple cons that they run using simple information such as your name, address, phone number, tax information, mortgage information, and other data they find online or purchase from data brokers. One…
Info@wiperts.com Standards to Protect Personal Information To help keep your data private, there are some standards you should incorporate into your life. Some of these privacy standards include not downloading applications you don’t need. For instance, if you really don’t need a fitness application and can instead keep track of your calories another way, do…
Info@wiperts.com Want to remove your personal search results from Google? Here’s how the request form works Google created a form to send in as a response to privacy acts and certain copyright and other laws to protect the privacy of individuals. The google form is used to remove specific information from their search logs. They…
Info@wiperts.com Don’t Expose Yourself: A Guide to Online Privacy The next time you see a commercial for something you just saw trending on Facebook organically, you will get a better image of who’s watching these organic social media conversations unfold. Many marketers and companies try to use social media to plant products with influences and…
Info@wiperts.com How to clean up or delete data brokers’ profiles of you Data brokers are a special breed of data miner. These folks store, save, buy, and sell all your personal data to the highest bidder. They are like squirrels gathering nuts for the winter. They mine data from every possible place they can think…
Info@wiperts.com Ways to Erase Private Information from the Internet Unfortunately, there is no magic way to erase your private information off of the internet. At some point, hopefully, a software company will come up with a great program or script that will be able to find and delete private information on any website. It would…
Info@wiperts.com How to remove your name from public searches Right now, if you have any history with public agencies such as paying taxes, having a driver’s license, owning a vehicle, owning a business, owning a home, or even having gotten married or divorced, you will have some presence online. Even if you don’t have…
Info@wiperts.com How to Remove Your Personal Information from Background Check Sites Data broker and background check sites have been cropping up all over the place lately. It’s really not surprising considering how hungry everyone is to get data on everyone else. From your neighbor, to the marketing team for large clothing lines, to…
Info@wiperts.com How to Remove Your Personal Information from Google When people do a google search of themselves, they are upset to see that there is a lot of personal information about them online. However, it is important to know that google is mostly just the messenger, not the data leaker. Though, information that…
Info@wiperts.com Websites publish your personal info to anyone who searches your name There are a entire sets of websites whose entire existence is to post private information about people so they can sell it. The get this data from many sources. Mostly they purchase it from data brokers, who purchase it from companies like…