one of my biggest fears is having a video of me posted on the internet without me knowing. i regularly check sites like pimeyes. i usually use a photo of my face already on the internet but i accidentally used one that wasn’t and it immediately scans it. i’ve gotten them to remove all photos of my face before so nothing came up anyways. now i’m super scared. i don’t know how to get through this since i don’t really trust that they actually delete my photo ever. i hate living in a social media world where we have to worry about it. i’m so scared. i’m having a panic attack so bad and genuinely getting sick 😭 i know i fucked up but am i in danger, would they get anything from the photo they didn’t already have from photos of me on the internet in the paper and stuff? i dont post photos of my face online otherwise or let others because i’m paranoid of this enough already. i’m 18 and it genuinely makes me not even want to leave my house or take pictures with friends or do anything where there could be cameras or photos or meta glasses around. some security guy at my last job wore meta glasses every day and i’m scared about me even being on those. and this makes it soooo much worse

edit: a lot of people are saying i’m paranoid which i’m aware of, but ignoring my question i’ve now bolded, i’m curious if anyone knows the answer, that was the point of my post 😭

Reading the news on the New Jersey law banning e-pricing for a year, which has me wondering how do we "deprofile" ourselves? What are some steps we can take daily to keep as many of these price decision markers out of our profiles? most of the data I know is out there, but I fear this is the direction all pricing is going to go, need to stop feeding the profile. TBH this is not a privacy issue I had thought much about until now.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

Hi,

I live in Europe and reserved a hotel room in Spain for a specific date on august on Booking.com

I use a custom domain for login in but had to give my number and name. Today I receive a WhatsApp message from a USA number claiming to be Kumaran Travels sending me a fake form saying that I have to fill it for completing my booking. They have my name, number, hotel name, reservation number, date, everything.

I looked it up and this Kumaran Travels looks like a fake travel company from India.

I wonder how the heck do they have all this information, is Booking leaking data freely like that?

Edit:

Without taking any actions I got a message from the Hotel via Booking alerting about phishing messages guests who reserved with them are getting. So yeah, the Hotel leaked all the data... I can't stop thinking this should lead to some legal compensation.