Yandex services are very popular in the Russian-speaking segment. Each more or less active user is registered in this system, which means he has a mailbox and a personal Yandex.Passport, which stores all the provided data about himself: address, phone number, etc. Sooner or later, everyone may need to delete all possible information about myself from Yandex. And for this it is not enough just to abandon your account in the hope that over time it will be deactivated and cease to exist. You need to take a number of actions to say goodbye to this company once and for all.
Sometimes it is impossible to delete some data from Yandex, just like from Google. For example, not everyone knows that mail keeps a log of visits, where all data about logins to an account is recorded.
This information cannot be destroyed as it is retained for the safety of the mail owner.
But you can get rid of profiles in a particular Yandex service, for example, delete the Mail itself, but other services will remain available. In addition, you can get rid of the entire account, along with which all other user data will be automatically deleted from Yandex services. This will be discussed a little below, since for many it is enough to erase the mailbox, and not the entire profile.
How to remove Yandex.Mail
After clicking on the " Delete mailbox»The mailing address will be deactivated. Old letters will be deleted, new ones will not be delivered. However, you can always go to Mail through a Yandex account and get the same login, albeit without old letters. Hence the question arises - how to delete the account itself?
Important information about deleting a Yandex account
Each user registered with Yandex has a so-called Yandex.Passport. This service serves for convenient use of other branded services, as well as for detailed customization of your data (security, recovery, quick purchases, etc.).
When you delete your account, all data is destroyed irrevocably. Think well if you are ready for this. It will be impossible to recover deleted information even if you contact support for help.
What happens when you delete:
- The user's personal data is erased;
- Data stored on branded services (letters in the Mail, images on Photos, etc.) are deleted;
- If you used the services Money, Direct or Mail (for domains), you cannot completely destroy the profile. Personal data on other services will be deleted, the login will be blocked. In this case, it will be impossible to use the account.
How to remove Yandex.Passport
Now all information about yourself has been removed from Yandex, but you can always create a new Yandex.Passport. But to use the same login, you will need to wait 6 months - within six months after deleting it will not be ready for re-registration.
Everyone who goes online at least occasionally leaves their "digital prints" on the Internet. To a lesser extent, those who read news, to a much greater extent, those who seek information through search engines. Active users of social networks even compile extensive dossiers for themselves, from which interested persons can find out not only their musical or gastronomic preferences, but also their daily routine or a tendency to bad habits and antisocial behavior.
Google Corporation is the world's largest collector of the most diverse information about users on the Internet. Google servers store such data about you, the existence of which you have long forgotten and the presence of which neither your relatives nor the most powerful special services suspect. And you provided all this information yourself, simply using the Gmail mail and the Google search engine. What can we say about your schedule Google Calendar Google Drive file storage, photo hosting and YouTube, which you yourself fill with detailed information about you and your life.
To get started, go to the "Personal Account" of your Google account - this one page allows you to get an idea of \u200b\u200bhow much information associated with you is stored by Great Google. It contains links to every YouTube video you've ever watched, a history of all your movements (when you turn on the locator function on mobile devices), information about search, photo albums, all installed Android applications on all devices ever connected, and a lot of other data. ...
On this page, you can change the privacy settings for each specific application and service, but at the very bottom there is an item that says "other Google products you are using are not yet available in your account", next to which there is a hyperlink "show all." After clicking on it, a list of other services will open, to configure which you will have to go to their pages.
Much of the information Google collects about you comes from your searches and the pages you open from search results. Of course, this feature really helps speed up the loading of the pages you've already visited, and it really does help make your search results more relevant. In addition, thanks to the proprietary search engine, the sites you visit can learn about what search words you find them, your location, operating system and browser, and other data. On the Web Search History page in the settings, you can completely disable saving history. In addition, you can delete either all saved queries and site addresses, or some of them.
The process of removing personal information from Google search results is significantly more time consuming. First of all, you will have to convince the owners of sites or blogs that host such data to remove it from their pages. However, even if they met you halfway, the old versions of the revised pages will still be stored in the Google cache, they will be displayed in the search results and they can be read without problems. To remove such pages from the cache, you will have to submit a request to Google. At the same time, it is far from the fact that Google will consider your claims justified.
If you were unable to agree with the owners of sites or blogs to delete your personal data, or Google did not consider your request reasonable, it makes sense to go the other way - move the "dangerous" pages as low as possible in the search results. To do this, you need to place "positive" data on many more recent and more relevant pages, including social networks and blogs. Online service BrandYourself can help with this, automatically creating favorable profiles on popular social networks and optimizing them for search engines like Google. You can post new profiles for free on any three sites, including social networks. The paid service includes posting information on an unlimited number of sites, as well as the ability to view information about those who were looking for data about you.
Finally, the most radical way to "break off relations" with Google is to completely delete your account, to which all the numerous services of this company are linked. This decision should be taken carefully, having thought it over well, because as a result you will lose absolutely all information and files placed on Google services, from email for many years to files on Drive and videos on YouTube. In addition, you will not be able to use an Android smartphone or tablet, since many of the functions of this operating system are tied to Google services, and a Google account is required to download and install programs.
To delete your Google account, you need to go to the account settings page and select "Close account and remove all services and information associated with it." In this case, you will need to check the boxes on all the services listed on the page, "to confirm that you are aware of the impossibility of using these products and related information in the future."
If you are not ready for such drastic actions, you can opt out of using certain Google services and delete your personal information only from their settings. To do this, go to the account settings page, select the "Products" item in the list on the left, and then you will be taken to the "My Services" page. Clicking on the "Edit" link will take you to a page with links to "permanently delete" Gmail and "Web History". When you uninstall Gmail, you will need to enter a new email address that will be used to access your Google account.
To delete your YouTube account, go to the advanced settings page and click on the "Close account" link. If your YouTube account is linked to a Google+ username, you will first have to de-integrate with G + and choose a different nickname, or change your settings, or completely delete your Google+ account.
Many services, including those not directly related to Google, use Google accounts for authorization. Thus, they have access to your personal data stored in such accounts. To break this integration, go to the security page in your account settings and at the bottom in the "Related applications and sites" section, click on the "Access control" button.
The Street View service as part of Google Maps usually automatically "blurs" the faces of passers-by and car registration plates, but you can additionally demand that some details of your place of residence be "blurred". To do this, on the corresponding image, you need to click on the "Report a problem" button at the bottom of the screen, after which you will be taken to the page for complaints about an inappropriate image. Here you can write that, for example, you are not satisfied with the image of your window for privacy reasons and you want to blur it.
If you opt out of the services and Google Account, you can of course continue to use this search engine. If you do not want the sites you visit to know your IP address, browser version, screen resolution and other information, you can use alternative machines. For example, Startpage gives you all the power of Google's search engine, but without tracking your location, placing cookies, or sharing that information with third parties.
The DuckDuckGo search engine runs on its own engine and provides a high level of anonymity both when searching and when navigating to pages based on search results. In addition, DuckDuckGo can integrate into IE, Firefox, Chrome and Safari browsers and has a number of useful features.
Have you ever wondered what Google might search for you personally? Even
you are not a well-known media person, there are many people in the world who
would like to know more about you. Well, let's say an HR specialist from the company of your dreams who is right now
is considering your resume for an open position. I wonder what results he
will receive if it enters your name in the search bar?
You can rest assured that the ineradicable illusion of anonymity in
Internet has ruined life for very, very many. Today most of us are already
understands that online reputation is inseparable from real life, and everything that
appeared on the Internet, remains on the Internet. But what if the awareness of this
is it too late? How to make the Internet forget yours once and for all
"Mistakes of youth"?
"Is it possible to erase yourself from the Internet, destroying all traces of
your stay in the global network? ”- such an interesting question asked the experts of PC Pro.
Not that the author of the article, Joe Martin, is urging one and all
commit virtual suicide. But situations when you want to start your own
virtual life from scratch is not as rare as it might seem. What,
if your personal correspondence or candid photos have been leaked to the Internet?
As Joy Martin found out, most social
networks and other popular web services will make every effort not to give you
delete all information about yourself. For example, a link to delete a Facebook profile is almost
impossible to find, and even if you figure it out, what is the difference between deactivating
and deletion, some of your personal data will be saved on the social network. AND
after deleting your Google account, groups you were a member of will still be able to send
letters to your other email address, says PC Pro.
Fortunately, there are specialized services that can
make your life much easier by making the Internet "forget" about some
unpleasant moments of your past or completely "erase" you from the Net.
Accountkiller
On the Accountkiller website
you can find direct links and instructions for deleting accounts in all popular
services. Some of them are blacklisted - these are the services that
practically do not leave users a chance to "kill" their account. In their
including - Skype, Evernote,
Wordpress and World
of Warcraft. Fortunately, there is also a "white list".
Google Tools
Google offers its own tools for online reputation management. For example, you can try to remove unwanted content and then the associated search results and saved copies of pages. Well, with the help of the service Me on the Web you
you will be able to receive notifications every time as soon as your personal data - say, e-mail or
phone number - appear on the web.
Reputation.com
Silicon Valley company founded in 2006,
manages online reputation using exclusive patented technologies. Reputation.com is ready
help both companies and individual clients. Reputation.com tools allow you to make negative
information about a company or a person is less visible on the Internet due to
promoting positive information.
The company also promises to remove unwanted information from
many online sources, using as their technological capabilities,
and partnership agreements with various data aggregators. In addition, Reputation.com constantly monitors
promptly delete negative or personal information about your customers in
if it appears on the Web.
DeleteMe
DeleteMe promises to remove information about you from the largest databases,
destroy any contact, personal and social information, and
photos of you, your family and your home. Every 3 months the company sends
detailed report to its clients. True, this pleasure is not cheap:
$ 129 per person per year.
Remove Your Name
Remove Your Name service
is remarkable not only for the high cost of its services (if you want to return your
honest name, be ready to shell out about $ 1,000), but also the presence
guarantees. The company claims it will work as long as your name is not
will disappear from the results of the largest search engines, and if this does not happen, you
will return the money.
Depending on which service package you choose,
negative mentions about you will disappear from the first page of Google (Personal Basic), from the first two
pages from Google, Yahoo, Bing and AOL (Personal Plus) or from the first three pages of Google,
Yahoo, Bing and AOL (Personal Advanced).
Sometimes you want to pick up a memory integrator from the movie "Men in Black" and erase all data about yourself in order to start life from scratch. At least on the Internet. Here's how to do it.
Checking what the Internet knows about us
Usually a lot, to put it mildly. Fill in your full name and e-mail in any search engine and be surprised. Separately "punch". In addition, it is worth looking at information about yourself on Pipl.com, People.yandex.ru or Pervoiskatel.
Exercising the right to be forgotten
Since January 1, 2016, every citizen of the Russian Federation has received the "right to be forgotten." For example, if you owe money, the newspaper published an article about it, and then you repay the debt, then you can force the search engine to remove the link to the article from the search results.
The law interprets the right to be forgotten ambiguously, since it does not separate personal interests from general ones. But you can demand to remove the link if the information about you is inaccurate, contrary to the law or is irrelevant (more than three years have passed since the events). Exception: they do not delete public information (in particular, about real estate and income of officials), information about unreleased or outstanding convictions of citizens and about crimes that have not expired.
To exercise the right to be forgotten, you can fill out the form in the search engine:
In the form, you must indicate your full name and other passport details, contact information, information and a link to the page that you want to remove from the issuance, and the basis for this action. After that, you will be asked to agree to the processing of personal data.
Another option is to send the application by mail.
The law gives search engines 10 business days to check information and request documents proving your identity. You also have 10 working days to respond. After providing the information, the search engine receives another 10 days to remove the link or refuse to do so.
And what if the search engine does not go to the meeting? You can file a lawsuit at your place of residence, and if this does not help, contact Roskomnadzor. If the agency makes a decision in your favor, the search engine will be forced to remove the link and will be fined 100 thousand for the first and 1 million rubles for a second violation.
For information: soon after the adoption of the law, Yandex disclosed statistics and showed that it rejected 73% of requests. And here is how requests were distributed by topic:
Removing pages from sites
With the right to be forgotten, a search engine can only remove a link to a page from its search results. The very same page with the article will still remain on the site.
Getting it removed is another story. No search engine can prohibit clicks on a direct link carefully sent by someone. And other search engines to which the user did not contact with the request to remove links will show pages in search results.
If the administration of the site or its users accuse you of something you did not commit, or indicate false information about you, you can go to court with a claim to protect your honor, dignity and business reputation (article 152 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). If the court decides the case in your favor, the site administration may be obliged to remove the text and publish a refutation.
If the site publishes your personal data without your permission, proceed as follows:
- Send a claim to the site administration, demand to destroy your personal data and prohibit their further use, indicating the illegality of their receipt and placement (without your consent).
- If the site does not agree with this, take a notarized screenshot - record the fact of the dissemination of personal data by a notary with the preparation of a protocol for examining the site.
- Bring the site owner to administrative responsibility under Art. 13.11 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, and insist on the removal of your personal data from the site.
- You can also file a complaint with the territorial body of Roskomnadzor and the prosecutor's office, pointing out violations of your rights, or with the court at the location of the site owner, demanding to stop the illegal use of personal data and compensation for moral damage.
If you just do not want information about you to be on the site, or you have serious reasons to delete it, you can always contact the site administration and honestly tell about it. Most of the site owners are adequate people and do not want legal proceedings, so they usually meet halfway if they understand the seriousness of the situation.
Looking for accounts
If you used Gmail or Microsoft to register your accounts, Deseat.me will help. It finds the accounts on various services (from Airbnb to Uber) that you linked to your account and provides links to pages to delete those accounts.
It works like this: log in to Deseat.me using your Google account or Microsoft account, wait a few seconds and get a list of accounts linked to your account.
To add an account to the list for deletion, click Add, and it goes from the lower list to the upper one. Then press Delete in the lower list and go to the account deletion page.
Of course, sometimes you have to strain and remember the password or recover it via mail. But everything is faster than manually searching where you registered and what you wrote. It's a pity that no service automatically erases the history of messages from accounts.
Some sites do not allow you to delete your account. Then you should try to deactivate it.
Another option: if the site does not have an account deactivation and deletion, and you cannot leave empty fields, erase all truthful data about yourself, replacing them with false ones, and bind the account to a new email address that is not associated with the old one.
Killing ourselves on social networks
To remove all information from Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, there is a fun Web 2.0 service, suicide machine. It is designed to snatch the user from the clutches of social networks and erase all information in the account.
The service claims to automatically delete a Facebook account with 1,000 friends in 52 minutes. If done manually, it would have taken 9 hours and 35 minutes.
Setting up alerts
On Google Alerts, you can fill out a form and receive notifications about new pages about you by e-mail. It is convenient to specify the first and last name, nickname, phone number, home address and e-mail as search criteria.
Outcome
In this article, Softdrom tells about what is permanent deletion of data, and how to delete data from a computer so that it cannot be recovered.
How data is deleted
When you delete any files in Windows in the usual way, i.e. by sending these files to the Trash, they are not actually deleted, but remain on your computer's hard drive, even after you empty the Trash. The same thing happens not only on Windows, but also on any other popular operating system, including Android and iOS.
The fact is that when you delete any data, the operating system formally marks this data as deleted and does not show it to you anymore. But in reality, this data remains in the operating system (they are called residual data or residual information), and they can be restored either completely or partially using special data recovery applications.
At the very least, recovery will be possible as long as the operating system does not write any other data to the place where the data that you allegedly deleted is physically located.
Why do you need to permanently delete data
There may be various situations where you may need to delete data from your computer in such a way that it cannot be recovered. For example, it can be any confidential files that need to be destroyed. Or it may be any data that compromises you that you want to delete so that it cannot be restored.
Any operating system, including Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, stores a huge amount of information about all user actions. The system also stores information about which applications you launched, which files you opened, which photos and videos you watched, which texts you read, and much more. In addition, if you use an ordinary browser to view sites (as most people do), then the operating system also stores your browsing history, which contains information about which sites you visited, which files you downloaded, and much more.
Even if you regularly clear your browser cache, deleting your browsing history, and also delete other information about your activities on the computer, then, as noted above, in fact, all this information is not deleted and can be restored using special applications that allow you to recover deleted data. For example, this can be done using the free Recuva app from the developers of the popular CCleaner app.
This problem can be especially true if you are using a computer that other people use as well. For example, if it is a computer at work, office or any other public place. In this case, anyone with access to the computer you were working on can use special data recovery applications and with their help he will be able to recover the information that you deleted.
To avoid this, you must use special applications for permanent deletion of data... Such applications allow you to delete data from your computer in such a way that it will be impossible to recover it even with data recovery applications.
Applications for permanent data deletion
Unlike the above-described software, which destroy data on a magnetic medium (computer hard disk) by repeatedly rewriting information, the demagnetizer does not overwrite any information, but simply destroys the magnetic field, or weakens it to such an extent that read information recorded on the magnetic carrier becomes almost impossible.
It should be noted that the demagnetization process usually destroys the hard drive, since it destroys the low-level formatting performed during the manufacture of the drive. Therefore, after demagnetization, it will be impossible to use the hard disk for its intended purpose and will have to be thrown away.
Alternative ways to destroy data
If complete demagnetization of the hard drive does not instill in you confidence that all your secrets are securely deleted, it can be noted that there are alternative ways to delete data, ensuring the guaranteed destruction of any data along with the medium on which this data is located.
We are talking about the physical destruction of the medium, which contains the data that must be destroyed. Physical destruction of the information carrier can be carried out using a number of special technical means. In particular, a computer's hard drive can be physically destroyed through use. It should be noted that this method was used in 2013 by employees of the US National Security Agency when destroying hard drives with Edward Snowden's secret files. In this case, the hard disks were preliminarily subjected to demagnetization by means of a demagnetizer.