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Guide Articles

  • Can You Completely Remove Yourself From the Internet?

    Completely removing yourself from the internet is rarely possible, but you can delete accounts, remove personal information, opt out of data brokers, clean up search results, and reduce your digital footprint so sensitive information becomes much harder to find.

  • How to Remove Personal Information From Search Engines

    Learn how to remove personal information from search engines by deleting it at the source, cleaning up Google and Bing results, removing data-broker profiles, and using privacy rights where available.

  • How to Protect Your Child’s Personal Information Online

    Protect your child’s personal information online by sharing less, tightening privacy settings, limiting app permissions and location access, securing accounts, and teaching safer digital habits. Learn practical steps for reducing exposure, protecting identity, and responding when a child’s data is already online.

  • Why Is My Name on Spokeo and People-Search Sites?

    Your name can appear on Spokeo and other people-search sites without you signing up. Learn how public records, online profiles, commercial databases, and data brokers combine personal information — and what you can do to reduce or remove your exposure.

  • Employee OSINT Risk: How Public Data Enables Attacks

    Employee OSINT risk grows when public details about staff are combined to support impersonation, phishing, fraud, account takeover, or targeted intrusion. Learn what attackers can discover, which employees face the greatest exposure, and how organizations can reduce the risk.

  • How Google Business Profiles Expose Personal Information

    A Google Business Profile can expose personal information when business and private details overlap. Learn how addresses, phone numbers, websites, photos, reviews, and social links can connect to your wider online identity — and how to reduce unnecessary exposure.

  • How to Verify if Someone Online Is Real

    A convincing profile, video call, or verified badge is not proof of identity. Learn how to verify someone online using independent checks, reverse image searches, account history, claim verification, and behavioral warning signs before sharing money, information, or trust.