The genealogy website FamilyTreeNow.com is sharing your addresses, ages and names of your relatives.
Here’s what you need to do to remove yourself from the internet:
1) Visit https://www.familytreenow.com/optout and follow the instructions:
Step 1: After you click the ‘begin’ button at the bottom of that page, you will be taken to the search page. Run a search for yourself.
Step 2: After you have found yourself in the results, click on the record detail. Verify that this is yourself and not just someone else with your same name.
Step 3: After you are 100% sure this is your record, click the big red ‘Opt Out’ button that is on the page.
Step 4: You will receive an email with a link, click on the link to confirm your optout request.
Step 5: You are done. Please allow up to 72 hours for your request to be processed. Once it’s processed that record will be removed from all places on the site. Note: If you have multiple records that need to be removed, repeat steps 1-4.
The site claims your personal info will be hidden within 48 hours. Do it now!
What bugs you the most about your private info being shared online?? Comment below!
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7 comments
Not sure of your point on family tre article. Is the point of your article if you are a user of the software or anyone in the US? I feel like the article is missing some details.
Thank you Sam. I’m not sure what you think is missing. What I can tell you is that I am a big proponent of being able to rope in my privacy whenever I think it has run beyond any reasonable path and becomes accessible to people I’d rather not have access to my details. e.g. criminals etc By removing yourself from this site, you can regain some of the ever illusive privacy we should all expect. Thank you again for reaching out.
When I put in my information it always says not enough information, but when I look myself up it shows my address and email including my social media handles. Are there any other websites that you recommend?
Hi, Kurt!
Tried to opt out from FamilyTreeNow, and after running through the instructions and referencing your instructions as well, no “red opt out” button was found.
Do you think these guys changed their webpage to avoid losing records after you showed daylight on them?
Try this https://www.familytreenow.com/optout
Follow instructions. They seemed to have streamlined it.
I sent photos and received a response from google saying the photos were view by the recipient. Please tell me how to stop google and others. Scary.
Some privacy settings for Google Photos can be found here.
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6280921?hl=en&ref_topic=6128855
Also, you may want to turn this off too…
Turn off notifications
When you take new photos, you may get a notification to share these photos.
On your computer, open photos.google.com.
Click Menu Menuand then Settings and then Notifications
Click Suggested sharing.