Internet is the best copying machine worldwide, any information or picture you or somebody else uploads, will multiply endlessly in the web. The search engines or “spiders” are constantly looking for new information in the net and will reproduce it into millions of views in different WebPages. When the news exceed national boundaries, it’s difficult to stop the spreading effect. There is an Internet Archive which records anything that is posted outside Facebook, Blogger or WordPress. All sites in its index will be reproduced over and over again, and it constantly feeds the web with the information unless you ask for removal.
Do you regret the upload of any comments, blog contents, or photos? If you would like to remove this info, we warn you, it is hard work and takes long, but be sure it’s not impossible.
Whenever you use Google search you are tracked by Google, and your information are logged in the Internet. Every time you search something in Google, and you access a link your address is normally sent to that site together with your browser or computer information which will collaterally identify you. Your profile could be shared in unwanted places or even sold, and you constantly receive undesired and upsetting loads of ads. There are other search engines you could choose to avoid, this is because they won’t trace you as DuckDuckGo.com or Biekko.com
As regards to search engines, write your name and surname and your entries will appear for you to delete. When you remove information in the Internet you must be careful enough not to get the side effect, i.e. multiplying it, this is called the “Streisand effect”. In 2003, this actress tried to erase some photos from the web with more and more copies and more people were downloading them.
You could start with your Facebook account; by changing your setting from “private” to “not shared” or “off”. You can also delete comments or erase photos in which you are tagged clicking on the star that appears in the top right and choose “I want to untag myself”. In Google accounts, remove your profile and subsequently the blog posts or comments will disappear; the same will be done with Tumblr or WordPress blogs.
Similarly, if you uploaded photos on Flickr; search on your name in Google images, contact the sites and ask them to remove your pictures giving a good reason for it. Articles or comments, the same as photos that appeared in newspapers will be rarely deleted. This is an ongoing effort; you must go on looking for your name on the net and keep contacting sites to ask for deleting your information.
When you remove data from the net, many other postings or past life bits will still appear like mentioned by the other people or photos where you were mentioned or tagged. As we said at the beginning, huge effort, in some cases, has proved to be effective while not in all attempts, perhaps nobody was successful but it’s worth trying.
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