Remove Your Info from Data Broker Storehouses
DIY: Reanna’s Big List of data brokers and their opt-out links
If you decide to hire a service: DeleteMe or Reputation
Plug Some Leaky Data Holes
Install tracking blocker extensions on your web browsers, like Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin.
Delete apps from your phone that you don’t need.
Follow these steps for limiting location tracking on your phone. (NYTimes, Dec. 2019)
Further Reading
Public-Facing Data Brokers
I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have. (B. Chen, NYTimes. Aug. 15, 2019.)
How Your Browser Identifies You
Webkay, a demonstration project by Robin Linus
On the Failures of “Anonymized” Data
Where Even the Children Are Being Tracked (C. Warzel & S. Thompson, NYTimes. Dec. 21, 2019)
Phone Apps
The Loophole That Turns Your Apps Into Spies (C. Warzel, NYTimes. Sept. 24, 2019)
Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry? (A. Ng & J. Keegan,,The Markup. Feb. 24, 2022)
On Dark Patterns
Dark Patterns: Two Games (Dundee Design House)