How to Ungoogle Yourself
Data brokers of today find buyers even on the Internet. They log data about each person and track name, address, phone number, and even maps to your house. This appears to be an invasion of privacy. You may not want your personal information out there to be found by just anyone or just want the right to determine who it is that has that information.
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Instructions
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Open your browser to Google and search for how to remove your personal information from online sources. You will find that you can remove your information but you have to go to each source individually and fill out a form to request that they remove your details from their database.
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Go to Google and search "remove phone book name from Google." The link to the request page for Google will appear in the search near the top. Follow the link to the form.
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Fill out the form to remove yourself from Google and you have successfully un-Googled yourself. The problem isn't over though. You still need to remove yourself from all the other online sources of information.
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Tips & Warnings
Personal privacy is a great problem in today's age of information glut. Everyone seems to be able to get any information on anyone.
Attempt to limit the information that you make available to anyone except those that you choose to tell. Make every effort to request that your information be removed from internal databases and publicly accessed databases from every source you can find.
Other sources that are online and should be requested are: AnyWho, Lycos WhoWhere, Switchboard, Whitepages and Yahoo People Search.
