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Exposed Online: Your Privacy and Why it Matters
People who are exposed don’t have a very good time. Every once in a while, we see a celebrity attacked online and off, but don’t think much of it because they have millions to drown out the sound of internet trolls. It’s easy to attack public figures since they’re in the spotlight and the public gives them only an inch-worth’s of privacy. But what about normal people who stumble on internet glory or are just trying to live quiet lives?
The human population on the internet is far greater than what celebrities in the 1980s and 1990s experienced – even normal people can be singled out and relentlessly bullied due to mob mentality. Don’t let your personal life get exposed online. Clean up personal details from the internet using Wiperts and make it harder for those who want to mess up your life.
It was just a meme
Imagine being in the middle of the craziest political cycle ever. Imagine making a viral meme about a news organization and a political figure, but the news organization gets mad and decides to do some investigative reporting. Imagine that person who made the viral meme is you. You don’t have to imagine. This actually happened to an internet user and there’s no doubt his life hasn’t been the same ever since. Where did he make a huge fumble? It was when he kept his personal info online for the world to see.
A middle-age man on Reddit made a viral meme about the U.S. President body slamming a major news organization to the ground WWE-style. The news organization, with its unlimited resources, decided to find out who made and posted the meme. Unfortunately, it didn’t take them long because the man’s Reddit account had a history of publicly identifying information – definitely not a good thing when millions of people have seen your controversial meme about a controversial topic. Having a powerful multi-billion-dollar company come after you is not a good feeling.
The news organization threatened to publish his name online in one of the most dangerous political cycles in history. Understandably, this man did not want this to happen because the news organization could have done so without any repercussions and he probably wanted to keep his life   quiet. It was just a meme after all. There was no way he could have known that the U.S. President himself would tweet it out. If the news organization did publish his name, or other net users snooped on him, then his life would be indubitably miserable.
If you ever find yourself in a situation like this, your best choice is to quickly contact a professional service like Wiperts to help. Anyone can make a meme after all, and no one knows if their obscure meme will suddenly go viral overnight. Erasing yourself from the internet is always a good idea when it comes to personally identifying information. You don’t want a major company putting its foot on your head or mobs of angry politically motivated people showing up on your front lawn. Protect your privacy. It matters because without it, you’re a public figure in the public eye.
Ruined identity
Those bullies from school didn’t go anywhere. They just went online. Lindsey Goldrick Dean told The Guardian that a man who barely knew her decided to bully her online for 13 years. Yes, you read that correctly, more than a decade.
Lindsey met him four times over the span of six months, and after she ultimately rejected his advances, the man decided to open up multiple domain names. The names are not flattering and pretty self-explanatory: “LindseyGoldrick-ANastyLyingPieceOfWork.com” and “YouThinkYouKnowLindsey.com.”
Due to the maniacal nature of her stalker, Lindsey’s good name was ruined. The intensity of her stalker drove her name to the top of Google in the worst way possible. Trying to clean her internet identity up herself was nearly impossible. Sadly, she did not consult a service like Wiperts to help fight back against her stalker. Alone, she could not beat the intensity of her stalker. Submitting takedown requests one-by-one and removing personal info about herself was exhausting and practically a full-time job. Consulting a dedicated team of professionals would have helped Lindsey so much. If only she knew such services like Wiperts existed.
The websites and misinformation proliferated because he was obsessed with her, working overtime to spread lies. Finding a new job was not an easy order – if she applied somewhere else, then the company receiving her application would naturally Google her name and find troves of crazy untrue info. This level of insanity requires a certain baseline of personal information. Mixing in real personal details along with misinformation is what the best liars do, and Lindsey’s stalker was no exception.
Pages of pages of lies filled Google’s search results and most likely her stalker took pleasure in spreading her personal contact details, opening her up to identity fraud and endless amounts of spam. His stalking was relentless. Lindsey felt trapped and without a voice. Imagine not being able to use the internet for 13 years. The internet is arguably just as useful as a car or a computer itself. Smartphones wouldn’t be so smart without 4G-LTE.
Years of going to the local police didn’t do much. Her stalker was arrested maybe once or twice over the span of 13 years, but he always came raging back to smear mud on Lindsey’s good name. This is the problem with the legal system, though someone is being mentally harmed online – driven to the point of insanity even – most police stations will not do anything unless physical harm is involved.
Fortunately there is a happy ending for Lindsey, but she had to risk bankruptcy and find some guardian angels. Her lawyers agreed to help her for free and/or only charge her a fee if she won her case. She had to take her case all the way to court. Lindsey did win in the end however, but using a service like Wiperts would have saved her a lot of heartache in the meantime.
