Finding your personal information in Google Search results — an old address, a phone number you no longer use, or a profile from a platform you deleted years ago — is more common than most people realize. The good news is that you have real options for dealing with it. The process,
If you've ever signed up for an online service, shopped on a website, or created a social media account, your personal information exists somewhere on the internet. The uncomfortable reality is that data breaches happen constantly, and when they do, your email address, password, phone number, or even
If you've ever searched your own name online and felt uneasy about what came up, you're not alone. Public records — documents created and maintained by government agencies — are increasingly indexed, aggregated, and sold in ways that make your personal information far more accessible than most people
Your phone number feels personal — something you share selectively with friends, employers, and services you trust. But in practice, it may already be visible to strangers, sitting in marketing databases, or exposed in a data breach you never heard about. Understanding where your number ends up, and how to check,
Your personal information can end up on the dark web without you ever knowing it happened. A retailer you shopped with years ago gets breached, a social platform leaks its user database, or a data broker sells your details to the wrong buyer — and suddenly your email address, password, phone
Identity theft does not always start with a stolen credit card or a data breach notification. Sometimes it begins quietly — a fake social media profile using your name and photo, a fraudulent email account impersonating you to contacts, or someone listing your personal details on a site you have never
Data brokers collect and sell your personal information — your name, address, phone number, relatives, and more. Here's what they have and how to get it taken down.
Billions of email addresses have been leaked in data breaches. Here's how to find out if yours is one of them — and what to do if it is.
Someone may be using your photos without your knowledge. Here's how to run a reverse image search to find every place your images appear across the web.