800 Points
You should think carefully about what personal information you share on the internet. For example, are you easy to find via search engines? If so, you should try to remove this data.

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Specialized agencies and data brokers collect public information and details about you from data leaks and sell them on to intelligence agencies, for example. Companies such as PimEyes, which specialize in facial recognition, use your personal images to train their AIs. The biometric features of your face are captured and you can be identified in other images in a fraction of a second. Try to find yourself on the internet, identify the services and try to remove your personal data from them. For example, use Google Alerts to be automatically informed via email as soon as your name or other personal data appears on the internet. You can also try using DMCA takedown requests to have your data removed from US websites. You can find out more about this in the links below.

Particularly important for the following target groups:

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Sources and further links

  1. When secret services obtain sensitive data from smartphone apps, netzpolitik.org, (de), 2024-05-28
  2. DMCA Takedown - Delete your data from archive.org, steampixel.de, (de), 2021-09-20