Online data is the goldmine for organizations and companies because of the digitalization of the world. Companies buy data from the online portals and show ads to the users according to their interests and hobbies so that they buy their products for sure. Privacy is one of the most concerning points in the internet era. We use hundreds of websites in our daily life and sign up for them or their newsletters. But what is the guarantee that our data like email id and password which we have created for the account on that website is secure there?
We read many articles in the cyber world about data breaching and maybe your data was involved in that cyberattack. So how you will delete your data from the websites you signed up for? After deleting your data or account from the websites there are very less chances that your data will be used by that website or company that is operating that website on the other places or they sell your data.
When we create our accounts on different websites we fill in some details like name, address, phone number, email address, gender, age, DOB, etc. If you are an SEO person, I'm sure that you have to register on hundreds and thousands of websites for your link-building campaign. But people can see your profile details on that website and can misuse that data like - sending you spam emails, etc.
Specially marketing companies buy the data of users from the online websites and portals and use that data for their e-commerce and marketing campaigns.
What Information is available Online about you?
Websites collect a lot of information like DOB, first name and last name, email address, gender, and many more. It becomes important to remove that private information from those websites which can compromise our online security.
You can't remove your name and email address obviously because without email, name, and password your account will not be available and you will have to delete your account. You can delete your account from the websites but if you will need them in the future then you will have to sign up for them again. So we recommend you remove the details that are not necessary on the website.
Note: Never use a password for signup on any website which is being used by you on your personal email, social media(Fb, Instagram, etc), or any other important portal(Paytm, PayPal, etc).
Use a different password for these purposes.
How to delete Your Personal Data from Websites?
Here is the complete step-by-step guide on how you can delete your data from the websites. Simply follow the below steps and you will be able to remove all your data from any website.
1 - Delete Your Social Media Footprints
Social media platforms collect a lot of data of ours while creating the social accounts we generally allow all the permissions yes.
The two big platforms are Facebook and Twitter. Luckily Facebook allows users to delete their posts in bulk.
How to delete your posts from Facebook in bulk follow the below steps:
1 - Login to your Facebook account
2 - Go to your Facebook profile
3 - Click on the manage posts right below where you create a new post.
4 - Use filters to sort the results
5 - Select the check box on each post, you want to delete in bulk
6 - After selection click on the Next button
7 - Select the delete post option on the next page and click on the done button.
Delete your Old Email accounts as well Old emails from your Inbox
You most probably receive a lot of emails per day which are unnecessary and useful to us because we have subscribed to the newsletters of many websites while browsing different websites. To firstly unsubscribe to those emails and delete them. After unsubscribing to those types of unwanted emails your inbox will be free a lot. If you subscribed for some reputed and important websites then you can keep them to get updates about the posts and other announcements on those websites.
In your entire internet journey you will have created many emails for different purposes but if you have some emails which are no longer used by you currently so then there is no sense in those emails. Simply delete those email accounts that's it. But if you have some important emails received in those email addresses then forward those emails to another email or simply download those important emails on your local storage for future use.
Ask for Your Data from the Data Brokers
Do you know who data brokers are? As the name suggests "Data brokers" are the companies or firms that collect the data of the users online. Companies use your personal data for doing the market research, run their product campaign, etc and sometimes they sell your data to other companies and then those companies pitch you through emails and messages about different products.
I'm sure that you have received a lot of marketing emails and messages. There are some websites where you can search if your data is available online or not.
- Whitepages
- 411.info
- PeopleFinders
- BeenVerified
- 192.com
- PeekYou
- Intelius
- Radaris
These are some data broker websites that collect users' data, use and sell it. Only you have to do is drop them an email to delete your data from their database in case they refuse to do that or don't respond to your request then you can also file a case against them.
Most of the time data brokers ask for the details about what you want to delete. If you are a reputed personality, company, etc then you can also hire content removal companies and they will do the work for you.
So this was a guide on how to delete your data from online websites and keep your data safe and more private. Stay tuned with PC Hover for more amazing tech content.
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