1. Your Online Identity Discovering Managing Controlling Kimberley R. Barker Emerging Technology Librarian

2. Discovery Find out what information about you is just a search away by mining the “deep web”. The deep web is“World Wide Webcontent that is not part of the Surface Web, which is indexedby standard search engines.” –Wikipedia

3. Characteristics of the deep web Info in unlinked sites, so cannot be found with regular search engines (which depend on hyperlinks)Site categories:Dynamic; Unlinked; Private; Contextual; Limited access; Scripted; Non-HTML Vast- in 2000, the size of the deep web was estimated at 7,500 terabytes & 550 billion documents

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7. Spokeo

8. Whitepages

9. MyLife

10. PeopleSmart

11. Archives

12. Moore Library News

13. Ebay

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16. More on searching the deep web Kosmix.com: “…combines deep and surface results, breaking them down into categories such as videos, documents, books, blogs, discussion forums, and websites.”

17. Managing Take steps to manage your privacy, and thus limit info that may be found on you. http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Facebook-Privacy-Settings-Pt-1 http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Facebook-Privacy-Settings-Pt-2

18. Controlling Below is a list of companies who make your info available. To have your information removed, follow the links and follow the directions. Public Records Now http://bit.ly/fIF1yZ Ameridexhttp://bit.ly/hszkFl Inteliushttp://bit.ly/cNyMW5 Piplhttp://bit.ly/frflWh For a more exhaustive list: http://bit.ly/hNlnEb

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21. Controlling Removing your information from the web Below is a list of companies who make your info available. To have your information removed, follow the links and follow the directions. Public Records Now http://bit.ly/fIF1yZ Ameridexhttp://bit.ly/hszkFl Inteliushttp://bit.ly/cNyMW5 Piplhttp://bit.ly/frflWh For a more exhaustive list: http://bit.ly/hNlnEb

22. In conclusion… All kinds of information about you is freely available on the Internet. Pretending that it isn’t there is not the way to handle this. Do the searches and discover what information is there. Take steps to limit the information that is available about you.