About six months ago I embarked on a "quest" to remove as many references to myself from the Internet as I could. This would cover various personal details, photos, etc. Now, 6 months later, I've learned a lot about how to go about removing these details.
A company called Abine offer a service called "DeleteMe" which costs $99 a year, although they only remove details once every 3 months, and do not respond to your requests to remove content immediately (i.e. if you spot some personal details, you can alert them, but you will have to wait until the next cycle for them to attempt a removal).
My idea to expand upon this is as follows:
1) Have tiered payment systems, where $100 will offer the same service DeleteMe does, $150 will do monthly checks, and $200 will do weekly checks.
2) When I cannot remove content (if I can't find a removal method, or I find sites that you actually have accounts on and have accidentally posted personal details) I will alert you with instructions on how best to go about removing the details yourself.
3) When details are removed from sites, I will also request that Google (and possibly other search engines) delete the information from their caches.
In terms of payment, I was thinking of making it more affordable by allowing recurring payments instead of one-off payments (for people who don't want to wait to save up enough money). I'm also thinking that if I don't manage to remove any personal details during one of the checks, I refund you the cost of that check.
Anyway, what do people think about this? Do you think it is a viable business model? Would anyone want to be involved? (I'd ideally need people in the US to help).
Edit: Forgot to add, that one of the benefits of having this service is that I would purchase premium accounts on a lot of search engines that deal exclusively with private content, meaning my clients wouldn't have to.
A company called Abine offer a service called "DeleteMe" which costs $99 a year, although they only remove details once every 3 months, and do not respond to your requests to remove content immediately (i.e. if you spot some personal details, you can alert them, but you will have to wait until the next cycle for them to attempt a removal).
My idea to expand upon this is as follows:
1) Have tiered payment systems, where $100 will offer the same service DeleteMe does, $150 will do monthly checks, and $200 will do weekly checks.
2) When I cannot remove content (if I can't find a removal method, or I find sites that you actually have accounts on and have accidentally posted personal details) I will alert you with instructions on how best to go about removing the details yourself.
3) When details are removed from sites, I will also request that Google (and possibly other search engines) delete the information from their caches.
In terms of payment, I was thinking of making it more affordable by allowing recurring payments instead of one-off payments (for people who don't want to wait to save up enough money). I'm also thinking that if I don't manage to remove any personal details during one of the checks, I refund you the cost of that check.
Anyway, what do people think about this? Do you think it is a viable business model? Would anyone want to be involved? (I'd ideally need people in the US to help).
Edit: Forgot to add, that one of the benefits of having this service is that I would purchase premium accounts on a lot of search engines that deal exclusively with private content, meaning my clients wouldn't have to.
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