If you're reading this, chances are that information about you is publicly available online: your full name, date of birth, address, and more. This is enough to steal your identity, stalk you, or worse. So how does it get out there, and what can you do to stop it? Tune in to find out!

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00:00 Introduction 00:37 Promo Spot 02:14 Defining "public data" 02:46 What are "people search" sites? 03:25 How does data become public? 05:01 What if your information becomes public? 09:33 Keeping data from becoming public again 12:22 Promo Spot 13:05 Outro

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