Now that you actively use the internet, is it possible to keep all your information private and secure, especially from sites like Intelius and People Finder. A subscription service called MyPrivacy launched by Fertik last fall, to help people pull their information off sites like the ones mentioned above, who are selling your information to people who most likely you don’t want find you.

MyPrivacy’s approach being finding all the sites that are invading your privacy, and hanging them out for you to see, then when possible, taking your data off their site, and out of their database.

So far, the only thing MyPrivacy has proved is that its pretty much impossible to have privacy on the internet. They have met multiple problems in their efforts, and have been stonewalled by many of the data businesses. Meaning, even with all their hard work, they have hardly made a dent in the vast amounts of personal information online.

There are about 230 of these database sites found to date, most of them having an option to “opt-out” of their site. What Fertik was trying to do was create a one stop opt-out service such as the do-not-call list, which 73% of Americans have taken advantage of. With unresponsive sites such as Intellius, WhoWhere.com, People Search, and Meta Crawler who ignore all requests, it makes it really difficult to salvage your privacy.