Data traces in the network: What is saved?
Every day you leave in the digital world, numerous small and large tracks. This usually happens unnoticed. To erase it, however, is a difficult task:
- Social networks: Use social networks such as Facebook or Google Plus, forums, Communities or other Web services, they leave personal information. Many of these information are public and for all to see.
- Search engines: search engines such as Google collect their data. Your use behavior will be carefully analysed and evaluated. Google knows about the Browser Cache, which pages you have visited and will switch to the right advertising for you.
- Online services: any other service in the network collects data about your behavior and your Person, as long as you are registered with him.
- How you can delete your data from the Internet, we will explain in the next paragraph.
Google entries to a Person
Step 1: your own name on the Internet
The sensitivity of the data that are available to the public are the most of course. Therefore, you should look first, what information you can find about yourself on the net:
- Are You Looking For Your Name. Here you should but not only on the search engine Google, but also Bing, Yahoo and people search engine Yasni draw.
- You collect all the sites on which your personal data are accessible to the public.
- Are you looking for in addition to your E-Mail address, since this is a connection to your Person can be established. Do a search for your address or phone number can also damage.
Avoidable entries on Google
Step 2: data traces in the Internet delete
To delete your personal data from the network, that is your right. The operator of a Website are obliged to remove your data upon request. In practice, this is however, still quite difficult: search engine operators such as Google are not able to ask you to delete your data, because you only give information that are already on the pages. You need to contact the respective service:
- If you still have access to the service or the Website, log in there and delete your tracks by yourself. In a pinch, you can alienate your data, if you can't delete it.
- In networks where you are active, you can change the visibility of your data in the settings from "public" to "private" (see image). This is in any social network such as Facebook and also forums possible. Often you will discovered on Google by his Amazon wishlist. You can switch to "private".
- You can't delete the content yourself, please contact the operator of the website and by e-Mail or phone. Ask him to delete your data. This is not possible, such as, for example, in some forums insist on the anonymity of their contributions.
- It should also come after a few days of no response to your request, please try again. Many services make themselves reluctant to the work, and hope to the negligence of the customer. You threaten until the second or third request with legal action. By then, most of the services are active.
- Especially foreign services such as Facebook, the topic of data protection, easy, legal, and respond not to requests from users.
- You have the right to request the deletion of your data. A Website should not continue to react and you want to delete the entries necessarily, you have to switch to the Not a lawyer. To the extent that it does not have to come in the majority of cases.
- The content is deleted on a website, he is after a few days or weeks, not over search engines.
Facebook profile from Google delete
Conclusion
If you want to remove your data in the best possible way from the Internet, you need to invest, depending on the quantity of some time. You stay persistent and insist on your right. You make sure in the future to treat your data as confidential as possible and to give only the on the Internet price, what may really know everyone. Under this category, as good as no data, though.
Local data, such as the traces in your Browser, you can easily delete. In the following practice tips, we show you how to do it for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer , and Safari works.
