I was listening to NPR and during a break in the show one of the Advertisements was for a company that took care of the reputation you have online, the company was Reputation, so I pulled over and Googled it.
There it was, Reputation.com, a website that in basic terms is in the business of providing protection to your good name online. They say “[t]he growth of the Internet has made managing your online reputation online a necessity” and they will do it for a premium. The company provides all kinds of online protection from keeping bad press of you away from the top of search engine results, such as bad reviews on blogs and review sites. They also keeping your personal information off numerous websites. Anything that can keep your information away from spammers, identity theives, or “bad” information from future employers, investors, colleagues, etc. Reputation is there to help you with.
There is not much specifics on what type of websites of what websites they keep your information off, but they’re prices to provide their entry level of services varies from about 4 dollars a month all the way to $700 a month. If your rep has been really destroyed by the internet they have custom plans that go into deeper protection for executives and businesses, but require a call for details.
The Internet brings the age of never forgetting, but Reputation.com is trying to make it harder to remember. My guess is that they will not be the only one’s providing this service in a few years. With information that can’t be deleted on websites like Facebook it leaves room for people to buy back that information or get it off there databases.
