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The battle for your data on the Web

Boston start-up joins those that will try to help you keep personal data off the Web

Joseph White was on a mission: to wipe himself off the Web.

Because his job as a federal government employee requires a low profile, the 37-year-old Quincy resident did not want his address or information about his family showing up on Google. “What aggravates me,” White said, “is that any Tom, Dick, or Harry who looks can find this information out about you.”

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