When some people hang their own luxury villas on the Internet and share their travel photos, each dynamic must be positioned, as if only through the network can prove their existence, some people think about how to The Internet disappears and people are not allowed to know their existence. Indeed, in the face of terrible human flesh incidents, it is possible to “find you along the network cable.”

Therefore, more and more people are beginning to notice the importance of personal privacy. However, today, when the Internet has almost become the “air”, how to maintain anonymity on the Internet and protect your privacy? Can a normal person living in 2019 really disappear from the Internet? So I did an experiment to see if I could find myself online.

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  • Do people really have no privacy on the Internet?
  • How much information did I find on the Internet?
  • In the face of privacy leaks, how can I protect myself and make up for it?
  • It’s not impossible to disappear on the Internet, but the cost is too high

Do people really have no privacy on the Internet?

Do we still have privacy in the Internet era? Maybe everyone searches for their name online.The word knows, although there are always many people with the same name and the same name, but in so many search items, there is always one that is true to you. The source of this information is also varied. If you have ever had a good student, you can even find the public record at the time.

“Human flesh search” is a new word in the Internet age, which refers to the use of modern information technology to investigate the true identity of people. We may have watched a lot of human flesh cases. For example, Song Song was given a lot of personal information and even opened a house record. Qi Tianlin even even scored the college entrance examination results. By the way, he also took away his tutor and the North Cinema Dean. .

But while we are on the sidelines, have you ever wondered which day you will be human? “On the Internet, no one knows that you are a dog.” This sentence may not be correct today. With the continuous development of network technology, someone can always know whether you are a dog or a person. So if you want to be out of the human flesh, if you want to disappear from the Internet, can you really do it?

How much of my information did I find online?

First of all, I’m thinking about Baidu, and I’m typing my name, Baidu. Sure enough, a bunch of namesakes, real estate tycoons, financial giants, university professors, etc., I did not know that my name is so famous. I looked at it carefully. The first page didn’t have me, but I turned to the second page. The first one is my ifanr homepage. I didn’t expect to sell my personal information as ifanr?

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▲ These are obviously not me

In addition to Baidu, I also tried to search with Sogou, 360 Search, Bing, Google and other search engines. The results are as follows:

  • Sogou: There are still many names with the same name, but my ifanr home page appears on the home page;
  • 360 Search: Ibid., the first time I found a post with my name;
  • Bing: I actually showed my photo in the picture, or grabbed it from ifanr;
  • Google: The order of my photos and the ifanr homepage has been greatly advanced!

From the results of the search engine, although there are a large number of people with the same name and the same name, there will still be real you appear. However, if you are not particularly famous, the order of appearance will be very backward, and the average person will not pay special attention.

Searching with a net name is easier to match yourself than a real name, unless your screen name is very popular, or common words like Panda, Monkey, and so on. Otherwise, I can find it directly with a high probability. For example, I found my Bilibili account number, know the account number, etc. through the screen name. Therefore, the current web name is actually a big privacy.

In addition, I also searched my QQ number. As a result, the search result of QQ did not appear, but I was surprised to find that my Baidu account username was actually the QQ number, and then I found out a bunch of Baidu. The black history of Baidu Post Bar, so that my trace on the Internet can be said to be no hidden. And Baidu account username can not be changed, this is a bit embarrassing.

There are some other information like mobile phone numbers, ID numbers, etc., which are not found on search engines. This is very gratifying. But don’t just search for your important information. After all your search, the search engine may be saved as a portrait of your user. In addition, Baidu can also help you protect your mobile phone number and ID number, as long as you have bound it, no one can search. However, why should I take the initiative to hand over my information to Baidu?

In the face of privacy leaks, how to protect yourself and make up for it?

Seeing that your information is public on the Internet, I believe most people are unwilling. If you don’t want your information to appear in search results, you can send it back to the search engine and ask them to delete such search result entries. Baidu can provide feedback through the “Advice to Baidu” at the bottom of the search results page, and Google requires the source site to be deleted before updating the content.

In the face of your own screen name, most social accounts are leaked. The best way is to take different accounts for different accounts, to ensure that others can not find another account from one account, and will not be exhausted by search engines. . To be on the safe side, the avatars are best set to be different. After all, the current image recognition technology is getting stronger and stronger. It is not difficult to match through image search.

What if your key information cannot be changed? For example, the Baidu account username cannot be changed. Then you can only cancel the account, but even if you can break through the difficulties and successfully cancel the account, but they really disappeared from the server? Maybe not, maybe someday the server was broken, and the information was dug up.

It’s not impossible to disappear on the Internet, but the cost is too high

Disappear on the Internet, hiding yourself on the Internet. We can take it for granted that all Internet accounts are written off.It disappeared, but the price to pay was too high. As an individual, all we can do is to prevent some privacy leaks to a certain extent, and those who can really disappear from the Internet may be out of touch with the whole era.

▲ Image from: Sina

For the average person, your information may not be so profitable, and no one will try to search for your information. Therefore, as long as we have done the above, it is difficult for others to directly search for your information, or find another account from one of your accounts, and you are not afraid of others to easily conduct “human flesh search” for you.

▲ Image from: Unsplash

From another perspective, perhaps not everyone has the need to “hidden”, such as media workers, what may be needed is exposure. Therefore, according to your own situation, whether your privacy leakage is within the controllable range, if it is, then you don’t have to worry about it. After all, as long as you use the Internet, there will always be indelible traces.