See Exactly What the Internet Already Knows About You
You cannot protect what you cannot see. This is a self-audit. Run it on your own name and your own accounts, the same way a careful person checks their own credit report. In ten minutes you will have a short list of exactly what is exposed about you, ranked by how much it matters. The next resource, scrubbing yourself off the internet, is what you do with that list. Defensive use only: look up yourself and the family you are responsible for, nobody else.
First, the ground rule
This only points at you. Run every search below on your own name, your own email, your own number. The goal is to find what a stranger could find, before they do, so you can take it down. That is the entire game. Looking up other people is a different thing, and not what this is for.
Step 1: Find yourself on the people-search sites
These sites scrape public records into one profile: full name, age, current and past addresses, relatives, phone numbers. They are the first place anyone types your name. Search your name plus your city on each one and screenshot what comes up. You are building a hit list of pages to remove later. Try all three, they each hold different records:
truepeoplesearch.com
fastpeoplesearch.com
thatsthem.comStep 2: Check if your passwords have leaked
Type your email into Have I Been Pwned. It cross-references the big public breach dumps and tells you every leak your address has appeared in, and what was exposed each time: passwords, phone, date of birth. If a password you still use shows up here, treat it as public. There is a full lockdown resource for this in the library.
haveibeenpwned.comStep 3: See where your face and photos show up
Save your main profile photo, then drop it into Google Images reverse search by clicking the camera icon. It shows you every other page that same image appears on, which is how a throwaway dating photo gets tied back to your real name. Do it for each photo you reuse across profiles.
images.google.comStep 4: Google yourself like an investigator
A plain name search misses things. Put your name in quotes, then stack the things you do not want public. Run these one at a time and note anything that surprises you. Google also has an official tool that flags pages containing your home address, phone or email and lets you request removal straight from search. Turn it on while you are here.
"Your Name" (your phone number)
"Your Name" (your home city)
"Your Name" email
Google removal tool: search "Results about you" in your Google accountStep 5: Check what has keys to your accounts
Every "Sign in with Google" you ever tapped is a door still standing open. Open your Google account connections page and read the list. Anything you do not recognize or no longer use, remove it. Do the same for Sign in with Apple under your Apple ID settings.
myaccount.google.com/connectionsNow you have a list. Use it.
You should be holding screenshots of every place you are exposed: broker profiles, breached passwords, photos that link your accounts, search results, and apps with access. That list is the point. Triage it in this order: 1. Leaked passwords you still use. Change those today, they are the live threat. 2. Apps and logins you do not recognize. Revoke them. 3. Broker profiles with your address. Those are next, and there is a full afternoon checklist for removing them in this library. Knowing is step one. Removing is step two.
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