Posted on 01/12/2012 7:00:11 PM PST by w4women
If you’ve ever used the Internet, you have an online identity. Maybe it’s slight: a Hotmail account here, a comment on a news story there. Or maybe you’ve been more prolific, leaving a trail of usernames, accounts, messages, and profiles across the digital landscape. In any case, an active internet user owes it to himself to do a bit of self-Googling. What you’ll find will be both enlightening and humbling—even worrying.
Read more: How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet) - Popular Mechanics
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Signing up for social media sites is, by design, almost entirely frictionless. Three or four clicks will get you in the door, but finding your way out takes significantly more time and effort. The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine (tagline: Meet Your Real Neighbors Again) is a one-shot tool for deleting your profiles from some of the largest social sites on the Web, including Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
The tool was released last year by the New Media Lab in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and still lives up to its name—with one exception. Facebook has taken action to disable the site’s “suicide” script, and even sent the creators a stern cease-and-desist letter, demanding that Facebook be exempted from its deletion tools. Among the concerns included in Facebook’s legal letter? “[T]he protection of users’ privacy.”
Read more: How to Disappear Completely (From the Internet) - Popular Mechanics
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On the to do list.
Probably too late though.
Cain’t be done! Internet is like the KGB - once in, you can’t get out.
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this looks interesting, but I wonder if they can really do what they say they can, which is hide your IP.
A good ZOT! seems pretty effective.
Utter BS!
Anything connected to IE is impossible to retain privacy.
Simply forget it.
Of course you can get of the grid.
I had a friend who did it in the early 1980’s. He had no commercial power. Solar panels, a windmill, a wind generator, a wood stove, kerosene lamps, no air conditioning (lived on mountain top at well over 6,000 ft. altitude), no telephone (only way to reach him was via 2mtr Amateur Radio with touch tone access. He had a computer then that ran off the solar panels. Modified TRS80.
He was a very good medical doctor and a great guy. He worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the ER. Rest of the week he was in his mountain top retreat.
It would be much easier to do today than then.
Google archives data off after 18 months. There’s no telling how long that data is archived. In the healthcare industry, there’s a 7 year mandatory archival period, but having worked in healthcare IT, I can tell you that they keep that data for MUCH longer than 7 years.
I would guess once you’re out there, there’s always going to be a record of you somewhere in some archive. Storage is cheap, and corporations are paranoid.
This is a bare minimum of a plan. Go to spokeo.com for example for a real horrorshow of how much They have pieced together about you from public records, phone directories, etc.
FDA regs determine how long the data and documents are kept and you are right some stuff never is destroyed.
"Oh, we trash the file after a year." No data entry.
Read again. It's a Firefox addin.
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