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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 801380">I have no digital footprint. Zero search results on any search engine. No known photo of me exists online. No account that can be directly tied to me. My real name has only been used 4-6 times online and that was a requirement of specific financial accounts and those were non-public accounts.It&#039;s much easier to maintain control if you do it early on and are consistent with it. It is much harder to remove your stuff later. These days keeping your stuff off isn&#039;t that difficult because to reduce workload and reduce privacy violations most sites keep a database of people that have requested data removal and automatically keep it removed.Other sites,&nbsp; you can force your information to be removed by citing things, in some cases that may not be accurate but will prompt removal. For example if you claim you are a child, sites will often immediately remote data. If you get a letter from an attorney or law enforcement agent and submit the request with that it will often prompt immediate removal. If you have any law enforcement, intelligence, counter intelligence or sensitive work involvement then removing it is even easier still and so is removing your family members.It&#039;s almost zero effort now to keep my digital footprint net-zero. Sure, a few sleuths may track me down on one other forum from my posts several years ago, but those accounts contain no specific or relevant personal information and no-longer-valid geographical location data from IP addresses.It&#039;s great being a ghost, and feels liberating in an age when most people have absolutely no privacy/anonymity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 801380"] I have no digital footprint. Zero search results on any search engine. No known photo of me exists online. No account that can be directly tied to me. My real name has only been used 4-6 times online and that was a requirement of specific financial accounts and those were non-public accounts. It's much easier to maintain control if you do it early on and are consistent with it. It is much harder to remove your stuff later. These days keeping your stuff off isn't that difficult because to reduce workload and reduce privacy violations most sites keep a database of people that have requested data removal and automatically keep it removed. Other sites, you can force your information to be removed by citing things, in some cases that may not be accurate but will prompt removal. For example if you claim you are a child, sites will often immediately remote data. If you get a letter from an attorney or law enforcement agent and submit the request with that it will often prompt immediate removal. If you have any law enforcement, intelligence, counter intelligence or sensitive work involvement then removing it is even easier still and so is removing your family members. It's almost zero effort now to keep my digital footprint net-zero. Sure, a few sleuths may track me down on one other forum from my posts several years ago, but those accounts contain no specific or relevant personal information and no-longer-valid geographical location data from IP addresses. It's great being a ghost, and feels liberating in an age when most people have absolutely no privacy/anonymity. [/QUOTE]

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