SERVICE ENDEAVORS TO DELETE YOU

Privacy is a precious commodity these days. But don't take my word for it. Just go online and type your name and the state in which you live into a search engine like Google and see what comes up. Chances are your name, address and phone number will pop up for starters.  You'll also find helpful online maps that will display a bird’s-eye view of your home along with driving directions on how to get there.  Or click on another selection for a detailed satellite photo of your rooftop. Is that a satellite dish I'm seeing on your roof?

My point is that there's more than likely quite a bit of data about you out there in cyberspace and it doesn't take a computer genius to locate it. In fact, just about anyone can find you, get detailed information about you and with just a little more digging can come up with some pretty personal data.

The Internet is a wonderful thing, don't get me wrong. As for me, I want people to be able to find me because I want to be accessible.  I'm on the radio every weekday coast-to-coast and my newspaper column lists my website as well. Hey I'm even listed in the phone book. But what about those of you who don't want to be located? Or maybe you simply just want to be left alone. Whatever the reason, you should be given some kind of choice or option to protect your anonymity if that's what you desire.

The phone company gives you that choice by offering a service that makes your phone number an unlisted one. By doing so, your number doesn't appear in phone books and dialing Information yields a recording that says it's unlisted at the customer's request. And the Federal Trade Commission has its National Do Not Call Registry. But there was really nothing that could eliminate your name and information from both online and offline databases, until now..

DeleteNow.com is an Internet service company that helps you to protect your personal information by scouring hundreds of online and off line databases and if it finds anything relevant to you, it deletes it directly or by making deletion requests to the appropriate sources. Using the company's patent pending Digital Purge Engine, the automated process crawls the web looking for anything that may contain your information. DeleteNow contacts many offline databases to remove your personal information as well.

Within a month of joining, your protected account on the DeleteNow website will display a summery of what it has found about you so far and how it is progressing on the deletion of that information. As this is an ongoing service, DeleteNow continues to monitor the online databases from which you have been deleted because it's not unusual for your information to reappear there again later on.

According to the company, the number of databases searched by DeleteNow continues to grow so the longer you maintain the service, the better your chances of being removed and keeping it that way. Given that it costs about 3 bucks a month, this just may be the most inexpensive way to insure that your personal information remains inaccessible to prying eyes. In fact, DeleteNow is offering a free 30 day trial to see if it makes an impact on your digital privacy.

For more information about it, go to the DeleteNow website at www.DeleteNow.com. Let me know if it works for you and I'll give you a call, if I can just find your phone number…