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by kappattack
1511 days ago
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I did this a few months back, and i was very happy with how easy it was to remove my information from Google. At that time though I had to get the content removed from each site, and then i had to notify google that the excerpts had changed due to my requests for the websites to remove my personal information. Its really nice to see that Google is now moving towards supporting a request to remove PII from results, without having to deal with individual websites, who almost always are scam sites who will try to get you to 'subscribe for premium profile control to hide specific content'. Never give these people a dime. Google processed my requests very quickly and the content just can't be found using their search engine anymore. Bing, on the other hand, was an absolute nightmare. After emailing for around a month with MSoft support, they claimed they removed content that was still showing up, and still is showing up to this day. This content doesn't even exist on the pages that Bing is showing excerpts from, and hasn't for around a year now. It became very clear to me that Bing had no effective process in place to carry out content removal requests, so I eventually gave up. Unfortunate, because alternative search engines like Ddgo and Brave show results from Bing, IIRC. I guess you can't place all the blame on these sites. I also found out my state releases the entire registered voter database for anyone to download online, without any reason or identification required. So if you're a registered voter, it is possible that the information you provided to register is public and available online anyways. This includes full name, email, address, and phone number - if I remember correctly. It's been some time since I looked through the database though. I found my entire family within it, and it receives quarterly updates. I would not be surprised if the government was at least one primary source of information for PII scam sites in the first place. |
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The National Conference of State Legislatures breaks out a by-state view of what info is available and how it can be used [2]. There's another good article [3] doing a state-by-state analysis of voter file privacy. The public file should only contain: Name, address, year of birth. The following should be kept confidential: DL number, last 4 of SSN, month and day of birth, phone number, information that a person declined to register to vote, the office that received a registered voter's application, digitized signature.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/u-s-voter-info-has-alw...
[2] https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...
[3] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/personal-voter-...