now that we've cleaned up our local identities it's time to move over to the internet so far everything leading up to this point has been pretty straightforward and simple to do this is going to be the first lesson where many of you are going to find your limits erasing your online identity is very tough and many of your accounts you've been using most likely for a good part of your life and some of you may use them every day so yes this is the true beginning of a clean slate let's start with a wake-up call [Music] thanks for watching go incognito by far the best way you can support the course is by sharing it with your friends and family word of mouth is the best way to not only spread the course but the messages it fights for for the support methods visit the core support page on techlor. tech that is all and enjoy the lesson [Music] the first thing i want you to do is log into your main email and search sign up in the search bar to get an unofficial list of emails you sign up for you should also search verify as well it might shock you to see how many services have your personal information if one of these services experiences a breach most of your other accounts will also be exposed assuming you supply similar or even the same information the sheer amount of services we mindlessly sign up for can be pretty insane next if you have a google account go to google's my activity page and browse through all of the information collected by google this can be very unsettling for me it was the recordings of every time i said ok google that freaked me out next let's go to our good friend google. com i want you to type in your email address that's it it's not uncommon to find random websites where people post your email with the password to get into an account right there from the search engine this comes from hacks and or leaks and this is how a lot of people are able to get into unprotected accounts you can also search your full name phone number and other personal details to see if your info is out there after that go to have i been pwned and type in your email address to see if any of your information has been leaked from data breaches more than likely you're going to find some stuff you don't want to see if there's nothing then congrats you haven't suffered a leak with that email lastly go to pipl.
com and type your name here to see if your personal profile is available for anybody to view a lot of you will have a profile here there's also anywho. com which has a reverse phone lookup i recommend you try out these are just a few of the dozens of people searching websites out there after doing all of that my hope is that you at least see the potential risks in blatantly signing up for services with your personal information now you might be asking how your information gets on these websites well a lot of it comes from online services you sign up for who sell your data post offices and other agencies could also be responsible and we'll cover that in section six the goal is to configure your browsing habits so this is unlikely to ever happen again which we will cover later in the course but for now let's work on removing what's already online remember that search you did within your email well for every service you signed up for that you no longer need go to that services website log in and find a place to delete your account before you delete the account though i'd recommend faking any personal information since we don't know if services are actually going to delete your data from their servers and this could one day be breached and released publicly now yes faking personal information is totally legal as long as you're not using it for fraud or illegal activities you can fake information by changing the email to a randomly generated one on tetmail. org changing your phone number to one on freephonenumb.
com changing your password to something random that you'll never remember again and removing any personally identifiable information about yourself some services are freaking stubborn and won't allow you to delete an account first try searching on google the services name followed by delete account a lot of times you'll find instructions there if there is in fact no way to delete an account which does happen just falsify your information email and password and never touch the account again deceit. me offers a convenient service that scans your emails for any account you opened which is really nice but keep in mind you are handing over all of your information to another company so i would not recommend going this route if possible if you're trying to delete an email account i would recommend deleting all your emails and flooding the email account with mail bombers to spam the inbox with random information to help clear out any of your personal data another good resource to spark your memory for rogue accounts is just deleteme.
