How to scrub your private data from 'people finder' sites

It doesn’t matter what you do online: The internet knows a ton about you, and that information is a mouse click away.
Search any people finder site—Spokeo, PeekYou, Whitepages, to name a few—and odds are you’ll find a page listing your full name, date of birth, names of family members, current address, and phone number. Depending on the site's aggressiveness, it may offer (for a low membership fee or the price of registering an account) additional details such as past ad