Protect yourself from data mining and tracking.

GOVERNMENT RESOURCES

• Federal Trade Commission Consumer Advice
• Identity Theft reporting
• UN Trade and Development - Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES

• Global Data Protection, Privacy & Surveillance Law Library
• Have I Been Pwned? - check if your email or phone is in a data breach
• IAPP - a not-for-profit association founded in 2000 with a mission to define, promote and improve the professions of privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally
• National Cybersecurity Alliance (USA)

OPT OUT OPTIONS

• DMAChoice.org - opt out of paper junk mail (credit offers, catalogs, magazine offers and other mail offers)
  • Deceased Do Not Contact Registration
  • Do Not Contact for Caretaker's Registration
  • Email Preference Service
• Donotcall.gov - stop spam phone calls and file complaints
• Opt Out Prescreen - stop credit card and insurance offers

REMOVE INFORMATION FROM INTERNET

• Delete Me - mission is to provide everyone with the power to control their digital identity and reclaim their privacy by removing personal data from online sources
• Just Delete Me - a directory of direct links to delete your account from web services

IPHONE OPT OUTS

• Enhanced Visual Search - When activated this allows your device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained by Apple so you can search by almost any landmark or point of interest.
  • Forbes article about it
  • to turn it off go to: Settings > Apps > Photos > Enhanced Visual Search > then turn it off if you don’t want your pictures analyzed by Apple’s machine learning model