For many users this is one of the great fears they have when using the online world. Specifically, we are referring to the exposure at a global level that may have certain own data and information that at some point we have exposed for whatever reason. The truth is that we are increasingly working with more personal and private data that we use to register on certain platforms or contract certain online services.
In addition, and due to malicious actors, certain information that we have stored on our computer can also be filtered so that it can be shared on the Internet. Obviously all this is done in a totally transparent way to the victims, in this case ourselves. Therefore, with all this what we want to tell you is that it may be the case that we want to know our own information available online.
For all this it is precisely for what we want to help you along these same lines. So we can get an idea of the personal information that over time have been exposed online or have appeared suddenly. In fact, we are going to show you how to perform these queries and even receive personalized notifications when certain data appears on the Internet. This is something that was initially known as Egosurfing.
You have to know that the search giant offers us its own platform to receive alerts about everything online that we need.
Receive notifications of your personal data on the Internet
In order to achieve these objectives that we are discussing, the first thing we do is access this Google website to personalize alerts. Here we have the possibility of entering the URL of news websites that interest us, for example. But in the case at hand to locate private information. Specifically, we are going to customize Google searches to receive our own data leaks.
In the text box that we find at the top of the interface of Google Alerts, is where we specify the personal data we want to find online. We must introduce the corresponding terms, but always in quotes. For example, our first and last name, telephone number or home mailing address. We can do the same, always separated in quotes, with the ID or email, phone numbers Bank cardsetc.
In addition, it is interesting to know that here Google proposes a series of parameters to customize when receiving notifications. We will be able to establish a language, the periodicity, the region and more. At the same time it is important to know that we can repeat this with all the personal data we want. This allows us to receive notifications even daily and thus find out when personal data appears on the Internet.
It is also important to know that we have the possibility to remove notifications of certain data that we have established here, at any time.
