Taking control: practical steps to reduce your digital footprint

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https://thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-13-taking-control-practical-steps-to-reduce-your-digital-footprint-8b7b0b10

Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/google-remove-sensitive-personal-data-from-search/

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ZDNet: I put 2025’s leading data-removal services to the test, and there was a clear winner. “Incogni and DeleteMe are data removal services that can help you lock down your data, but they specialize in different areas. Read on to discover which service will suit you best.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/zdnet-i-put-2025s-leading-data-removal-services-to-the-test-and-there-was-a-clear-winner/

Tom’s Hardware: AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’. “A software engineer and developer, who previously accused Amazon Web Services (AWS) of a ‘digital execution,’ has shared the good news that his data has now been restored. What made this impossible task possible was ‘one human being inside AWS [who] decided to give a damn,’ according to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/12/toms-hardware-aws-users-data-returned-because-one-human-being-inside-aws-decided-to-give-a-damn/

The Conversation: Vanishing data in the U.S. undermines good public policy, with global implications. “As researchers focused on data management (Kristi) and behavioural sciences (Albert) and whose work tackles the significance of research with open access data, we have been concerned about how the data sets that scholars around the world rely on have been vanishing from U.S. government […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/the-conversation-vanishing-data-in-the-u-s-undermines-good-public-policy-with-global-implications/

NextGov: Inside efforts to capture federal data after ‘the big takedown’. “[Denice] Ross, who’s now a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, is one of the people behind America’s Data Index, an attempt to get a better view of changes across the government data ecosystem.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/nextgov-inside-efforts-to-capture-federal-data-after-the-big-takedown/

Data Rescue Project: Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal. “The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. … The Portal makes it easy to discover rescued datasets by government offices sharing the data, topic, and more.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/25/data-rescue-project-data-rescue-project-launches-new-portal/

Don’t Trust #DataRemoval Services Until You Read This

https://www.makeuseof.com/data-removal-services-risk/