This is why I’ve never used my real name on the internet.
this is my real name
These scum sites buy your info from the driver’s license and financial groups.
They have your billing addresses for utilities etc.
You don’t have to use your name on the internet to be in their database they’ve bought and sold from/to similar companies.
You don’t have to. They pull in federal, state and county records, credit bureau records and other records.
Some sites won’t remove without a court order (and many courts won’t grant such an order)
Since the beginning of the interwebs, I have not trusted the dispersion of personally identifiable data. Only those references that are in fact Public can be traced back to me, unless one has state level capabilities. I am under no illusion that a persistent search might actually be fruitful, but nothing I do encourages it.
They do not need your real name from internet postings.
They have you real name from DOL, your doctor, your hospital, your dentist, your bank, your insurance company, your passport, your birth certificate, your voter registration, your credit cards etc. Most of this information is public records.
I have never used my real name nor my real birthdate on the internet. MyLife has them both listed correctly, so my question is: who sold this information? It could only be a credit card company or credit bureau, a bank, a healthcare provider, the IRS or other government agency, the tax program I use, a school I attended, an employer I worked for.
I’m not overly concerned about those things being out there though. Why not? Because my identity has already been stolen twice — the first through a breach at my healthcare insurance company, the second the Experian breach that snagged millions of us.
After the first one I froze my credit info with all three credit bureaus including Experian (ironic, yes?). It isn’t foolproof but it’s better than doing nothing.
Yes, there’s way too much information out there, all of it is beyond our control, and I didn’t sign on for any of it.