Jared Burrows Blog

Friday, December 28, 2012

How to remove your private data from Spokeo

Find your link on Spokeo:

http://www.spokeo.com/

Then go to their privacy website and ask for removal:

http://www.spokeo.com/privacy

How to control of your Google privacy

Go to:

https://www.google.com/dashboard/?hl=en

From here you can easily see everything you have ever done on Google.

Here are only some of the applications that you can control.

How to remove accounts connected to your Google account

Go to:

https://profiles.google.com/u/0/connectedaccounts

From here you can easily de-select all the associated accounts that Google has found.

Go to:

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens?hl=en_US

From here you can easily de-select all the associated accounts that are actually connected to your account.

How to remove your Photo from Youtube

Go to:

http://www.youtube.com/account_advanced

Click on Rename > Check "I understand that my channel will be renamed." > Click Rename Channel

This will simply revert your Youtube account back to the way it should be. It should remove the Google+ photo as well as other information.

How to remove your Google+ +1's

Go to plus.google.com > Click on Profile > Click on "+1's"

From here, simply remove all the unwanted "+1's"

How to turn off Windows Sharing Options - prevent intrusions

Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Advanced sharing settings

From here, you can simply un-check Network Discovery, File and Printer sharing and Public folder sharing.

How to turn off Windows UAC(User Account Control)

Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety > UAC

From here, you can simply turn off UAC

How to turn off IPV6

Method #1

Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Wireless Connection uncheck ipv6

From here, you can simply turn off IPV6.

Method #2

Start > regedit.exe > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > services > TCPIP6 > Parameters key new DWORD, DisabledComponents, val = 0