How to keep yourself safe in a world of creepy websites filled with personal data

In an era dominated by tales of embarrassing and politically devastating email hacks, the need to protect yourself online is all the more real.

From phone numbers and addresses to the names of your parents and relatives, your personal information is sitting on a number of websites, for anyone to peruse and misuse.

But there's a way to stop it.

Genealogy websites like FamilyTreeNow and people-search sites like Spokeo all publish this sort of info by pulling it from public records. Some of them make this material even easier to access than others. For instance, FamilyTreeNow is free and you don't even need to sign up. Read more...