Kanary Blog

Admins, this guide is for you: Learn to quickly onboard your team to Kanary and maximize their online privacy.

Learn about the recent closure of data brokers GladiKnow and Spytox and what it means for your online privacy.

Kanary Copilot is a new product from Team Kanary. Learn more about how it works, the roadmap, and what this means for you.

We recommend all of our members walk through these de-Google steps when they have a high priority result they need removed from Google. The best part, it's free.

Team Kanary had a conversation with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) about a groundbreaking privacy law passed in 2023. Learn about it and its implications.

By locking down and scrubbing sensitive data from the web, Kanary makes it harder for attackers to build personal and convincing attacks against you and your organization.

When harassment is escalating, what do you do or say to protect your family members? This is an especially challenging problem we hear from members when their family lives far away or aren't tech savvy. Here's our most common advice.

Always ask a data removal service "How are you sharing my email with brokers for opt outs?" before joining. If you aren't careful, certain removal services spray your email across hundreds of sites. This can lead to influxes of spam and further exposure - the exact opposite of what you're going for.

GoButler was a data broker site known for exposing sensitive personal information and refusing to adhere to removal requests. After thousands of complaints and escalations by Kanary and our Members, the site is no longer online.

Kanary helps submit removal requests across hundreds of websites that do not require high levels of identity verification. But if you’re working as a journalist, politician, or activist, you might need to go deeper.

If you’re optimizing for speed or dealing with an urgent situation, this guide walks you through 4 features that you should enable on your account to get the best experience.

If you've decided it's time to part ways with Instagram permanently, this blog post will walk you through the steps to permanently delete your account.

We'll take you through the steps to fortify your Facebook account and safeguard your digital footprint.

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has controversial privacy practices, but now provides tools to control your account settings.

If you've decided it's time to bid farewell to your LinkedIn account, we've got you covered. Follow these simple steps to close your LinkedIn account.

LinkedIn, being a professional networking platform, offers users the ability to customize their privacy settings.

How to suppress & escalate an exposure on a PeopleConnect site. One of the worst brokers we deal with.

Because of the increased push back from sites, our engineering costs to provide a high quality service have increased. We are raising our prices in 2024 to cover these costs and continue improving our services.

Facebook Marketplace is a common place for scammers to lurk and harvest your personal information. Our team is here with advice and post-scam clean up help. If you're dealing with an urgent situation, let us know.

A conglomerate of spyware companies and people search sites have been taken offline due to legal action by the NY State Attorney General. Find out what happened.