DeleteMe on This Week in Tech (Video)

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This episode of This Week in Tech is brought to you by DeleteMe. If you've ever wondered how much of your personal data is out there on the Internet for anyone to see, don't look. It's terrible. It's more than you think. Your name, your contact info, your home address, even your Social Security number. I was shocked to learn not only can data brokers collect your Social Security number, they can sell it on to anybody with the money, and it's not much money either. Even information about your business and your family members, all being compiled by data brokers and sold online where anybody can buy it. Law enforcement, marketers, foreign governments, and, of course, hackers. Now that can lead to identity theft. They don't say, hi, I'm a hacker. They say, oh, yeah. I'm a good businessman. I'm gonna buy the data. Right? But what does it lead to? Identity theft? They can get everything they need. Phishing attempts, doxing, harassment. Actually, we really became aware of DeleteMe when we got phished, and it became very clear after a number of attacks that the the the attackers knew everything about our business, phone numbers, names, who reported to whom. It was really kinda scary. We gotta do a better job of protecting ourselves. I'm just glad the elite me is here, and I'm glad we subscribed to it. It's a subscription service that removes all of that personal info from hundreds of data brokers.