Erase Your Digital Footprint: The Step-by-Step Plan to Get Your Personal Data Off the Internet

Type your name into a search box. What comes back is more than you would like, and sites you never signed up for put it there.

This plain-language plan hands you the removal work in order: find where your personal data lives online, remove it from people-search sites and Google results, lock down old accounts, and keep it removed. It is the companion to They Know Everything About You: that book explained the system, this one hands you the plan to take yourself out of it. No tech skills needed.

Inside:

- The self-search audit: find every listing before you delete anything, ranked by danger

- The big people-search sites and how their free opt-outs really work, plus why listings come back

- Google's free "Results about you" tool: what it removes, and what it cannot

- Social media cleanup and the old-accounts graveyard audit

- Staying removed: the one-hour, four-times-a-year maintenance routine

Make yourself hard to find by accident. Start the plan this weekend.