Wirecutter: “As a privacy journalist, I have given all manner of advice for how to secure and obscure an online life, but I’d never undertaken a project that extends the idea of privacy to its logical conclusion: by disappearing completely. So I set out to erase my online life. I failed. Finding myself (online). The most obvious way to see what everyone else can easily learn about you is by Googling yourself. Type in your name, followed by “address” or “phone number,” and you’ll likely find websites that list your personal details for anyone to see. Google offers a tool to take down some search results containing your personal information, but doing this only prevents the information from appearing in a search — the original sites still have your information…”