How about NordVPN’s Incogni?
Incogni seems somewhat orthogonal to the discussion of cyber insurance—it’s a service that claims to remove your information from data brokers. I don’t know anything about it, but I’d wonder how you could tell if it was actually making a difference.
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Right, I agree that NordVPN’s Incogni is orthogonal to insurances, but it could possibly prevent having to rely on an insurance.
I personally do not have any experience with Incogni, but I had hoped that someone else had.
One of my friends uses a similar service and is very happy with the results. I can’t remember the name but based on his recommendation I wouldn’t hesitate.
So how did he know it was working? Just being told your information has been removed from data brokers wouldn’t seem particularly helpful (or verifiable). Was there a reduction in some sort of privacy-abusing behavior?
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It cleaned up their online info. Things like when they googled their name they’d find their address attached to a family member. They’ve been doing it for a couple of years and are now at the point that hardly anything comes up when googling their name/address. It does seem to be an ongoing process. Is it ok to post the company name?
Sure, I could imagine someone wanting to use the service.
While a reduction in search engine results is certainly a good thing, I’d say another test would be if knowledge based authentication (KBA) stopped working. I’m sure most of us have been forced to use KBA at least a few times; it uses data broker and credit bureau information to generate questions such as “select the county you’ve lived in” and “indicate the address associated with [name of family member]”. A major weakness of KBA is that a lot of the information it relies on can be gleaned from social media and public records in governmental databases.
That is an interesting observation. There have been times I’ve been asked a challenge question for an address that I’ve never lived at, but I know is associated with me due to an ex. But I only knew that because it showed up on my credit report. I did fix the credit report issues on my own.
The service my friend used is OneRep.com
Diane
Many of us here are familiar with Brian Krebs, the security and privacy journalist. Here is a 2024 story on his website that anybody considering buying a Onerep subscription should take into account:
Good info! I will pass that on. Thanks!