Removing personal info from web?
Grandkid comes over who is taking a elementary police class, and in few second finds my info on web. Some of info is from public records I think, and other info I believe is from daughter thinking ho...
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wa8yxm wrote:
The best way is to lie.. I'm serious.
FOr example I do dozens of Surverys every week, they all ask when I was born.. Well I will only tell you I was NOT born on January 20, 1950.. But that's what I tell them. and I always use the same date.
WHY. Well anyone trying to "Borrow" my Identity based on the on-line info.. Can't.
I wonder how effective this is? I don't want to lie...but providing an incorrect birthday seems like a very good idea to avoid identity theft. This is the Internet, if somebody wants/needs private information such as birth date, it should be told in person.
Or, would that person enter the correct birthdate right into the Internet so it's in cyberspace just the same?
