Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Google your name. There are a bunch of websites that will list your known addresses, affiliates(family or people you have lived with), phone numbers, social media, etc.

    That data is collected through various means and then are sold to interested parties.

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      1 year ago

      Generally information gathering from public sources like that is called OSINT in case someone wants to look up more details.

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      Google will monitor your deets in their search results and let you pull them, though I’m not sure how useful that is to most of the peeps in a privacy community.