Removing Online Personal Info

Thought I'd share the opt out instructions for people search sites that share your address, age, phone number, family members' names, etc.

This is truly a Sisyphean task -- apparently you can't opt out of all these sites in one fell swoop since new ones keep popping up and info is drawn from public records, but opting out of the known ones offers a bit of comfort. (At least make it difficult, right?)

These are the major ones:

• FamilyTreeNow: https://www.familytreenow.com/optout

• InstantCheckmate: https://www.instantcheckmate.com/optout/

• Intelius: https://www.intelius.com/optout.php

• LexisNexis: https://optout.lexisnexis.com/?

• MyLife: steps outlined in this article

• Peekyou: http://www.peekyou.com/about/contact/optout/

• PrivateEye.com: http://secure.privateeye.com/optout-form.pdf

• Radaris: http://radaris.com/page/how-to-remove

• Spokeo: https://www.spokeo.com/optout

• Spyfly: https://www.spyfly.com/help-center/remove-info

• USA-people-search: https://www.usa-people-search.com/manage/default.aspx

• Whitepages: https://www.whitepages.com/suppression-requests

Reduce LinkedIn Spam

If you’re getting “I’m looking for financial partners and would love to connect” messages on LinkedIn, contact Sofos at sofos@sofos.ai with your LinkedIn profile url and ask to be removed from its lists.

(h/t ashishb.net)