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People-Search Site Removal Services Largely Ineffective

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STIX ID: report--87af8858-d323-5dd1-bf1f-04f793930d1f

Feed Name: Schneier on Security

Date Published: 2024-08-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bruce Schneier

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A Consumer Reports study finds that people-search site removal services save time but are largely ineffective: across 28 participants, only 117 of 332 data instances (35%) were removed within four months, with personal information still appearing on many of 13 people-search sites at one-week, one-month, and four-month checkpoints.

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