Best Way to Remove Your Data Online – Paid vs DIY

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Are data removal services worth the money? In this video, Dr. Jon Padfield breaks down the pros and cons of the top data deletion services, reveals which methods work best, and shows you how to remove your personal information from data brokers yourself — for FREE. You’ll learn: • The different types of data brokers and which pose the greatest risk • How state laws affect your right to be removed from databases • Why Consumer Reports found some services barely work at all • Which services use manual removal, AI, or bulk form letters • How to download Michael Bazzell’s free workbook to do it yourself 🔔 Subscribe for more privacy, technology, and digital freedom videos. Support the channel: Buy Me a Coffee → https://coff.ee/businessreform Brushfires of Freedom Tour: BrushfiresTour.com #MakePrivacyNormalAgain The use of any copyrighted material in this video is done so for educational and informational purposes only including parody, commentary and criticism. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015). It is believed that this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. - Written by Dr. Steve Turley but applicable to Business Reform as well. Links to all sources used in this video... https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-are-hundreds-data-brokers-not-registering-states https://onerep.com/blog/what-are-data-brokers-and-how-come-they-sell-your-info https://therecord.media/new-jersey-law-enforcement-lawsuit-lexisnexis-data https://therecord.media/new-jersey-law-enforcement-sues-data-brokers https://dailysecurityreview.com/security-spotlight/national-public-data-data-breach/ https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/personal-information/services-that-delete-data-from-people-search-sites-review-a2705843415/ https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/transunion-sued-over-2022-data-breach-affecting-200-million https://www.techradar.com/best/best-people-search-finder-services-and-engines https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?geoUrn=%5B%22102713980%22%2C%22100811329%22%2C%2290009633%22%5D&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A1726842&keywords=deleteme&origin=FACETED_SEARCH&page=4&position=0&searchId=8716ae82-354a-4f42-935b-e9a4c56accde&sid=vVz https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html