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Google yourself, check your email and scrub your social media. Photograph: iStock
We’ve all had moments when we wish we could erase ourselves from the internet. Perhaps an embarrassing moment that has been made public or an ill-advised comment or judgment from the past that has resurfaced to haunt us.
In that moment of horrifying clarity, we realise just how much data is out there on us.
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