You can't. This is public information. Details about you do not belong to you. These are the things that your friends, neighbors, relatives remember, and perhaps more importantly, that your enemies identify you by.
These are the things that are on the lips of the people around you. They are the memories of you, and do not belong to you. Like that photo at Disneyland where you're randomly in the background, they depict you but are someone else's property. You can choose not to exist in these databases by not interacting with the world - go hide in a hole somewhere.
That these bits of random trivia are used to verify your identity is the fault and problem of the banks. It's a real problem, and one that needs to be legislated away.
I was thinking that too. When you give out your number to friends and family, your number gets added to their contact list, meaning your number is potentially public knowledge from there on in, since your family could have compromised devices or some random Flashlight app scraped the contact list for malicious reasons.
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You can't. This is public information. Details about you do not belong to you. These are the things that your friends, neighbors, relatives remember, and perhaps more importantly, that your enemies identify you by.
These are the things that are on the lips of the people around you. They are the memories of you, and do not belong to you. Like that photo at Disneyland where you're randomly in the background, they depict you but are someone else's property. You can choose not to exist in these databases by not interacting with the world - go hide in a hole somewhere.
That these bits of random trivia are used to verify your identity is the fault and problem of the banks. It's a real problem, and one that needs to be legislated away.
I was thinking that too. When you give out your number to friends and family, your number gets added to their contact list, meaning your number is potentially public knowledge from there on in, since your family could have compromised devices or some random Flashlight app scraped the contact list for malicious reasons.
If you are in the EU, the GDPR disagrees with this belief. You have the right to your personal data, and the right to be forgotten.