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by slvrspoon 1672 days ago
disclaimer: i'm a co-founder. https://joindeleteme.com/ we consistently find in our DeleteMe searches fairly "rich" profile info sold by data brokers and SEO'd on Google not just on our customers themselves but also their family. This often includes: spouse full name and age (and obviously relationship) and, more disturbingly, children's names and ages. We try to remove all this via opt-outs. The implications of such full family profile data being easily available by simple Google searches and for sale "cheap" at data brokers are not imhop awesome. Lastly, leaving privacy aside, from a security perspective, do NOT use children/family members names and years of births in ANY passwords.