What is a Privacy Risk Score?
Found front and center on the Exposure Dashboard, the Privacy Risk Score measures how dangerous your personal data exposures are today. This is determined by Privacy Bee scanning and monitoring sites across the internet, which identifies anywhere and everywhere your information is found, open, and available. A full scan is conducted once you set up your account (and regularly after that) to ensure the dashboard shows the latest updates.
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The Privacy Risk Score is based on the number of exposures identified, the popularity and size of the sources, the amount of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) contained in each exposure, and a variety of other proprietary factors, all aimed at assessing how at-risk you are from an External Data Privacy standpoint. The higher the risk score, the easier it is for a cybercriminal or threat actor to find your information online and target you, your family members, or your business with an attack. Cyberattacks infused with exposed PII are significantly more effective than those without it, including phishing, smishing, vishing, ransomware, spoofing, and numerous other identity-based attacks.
To improve your Privacy Risk Score, you must remove your personal data from the sites that expose it today. The most effective way to do this is to upgrade to a license and enlist the Privacy Bee team of trusted professionals to manage the data deletion process on your behalf. Each deletion can take anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes, depending on the specific process required by the website, so it is incredibly time-consuming to handle on your own.
With this in mind, Privacy Bee does provide data deletion guides for each exposure with a free account if you'd like to manage the process alone. Our mission is to fight against the exploitation of privacy, so we want to ensure everyone has access to the deletion guides that have taken our privacy professionals hours over the course of years to create. To view a specific guide, click "Active Exposures" in the navigation bar on the left side of your screen. Then, select an exposure and click "Deletion Guide" to review the step-by-step documentation.
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When this time-consuming process gets to be too much, since the average person has hundreds of data exposures after all, add a license to your account and then sit back and relax as your Privacy Risk Score decreases over time. With a Privacy Bee license, rest assured that our team is relentlessly working to remove your personal information from every site exposing it. As new exposures emerge, the scanning and monitoring service will pick them up, and our team will automatically be prompted to submit deletion requests on your behalf. It's genuinely a set-it-and-forget-it solution to give you back control of your online privacy.
If you ever have any questions or concerns about navigating a specific deletion, it's best to contact our mascot Orwell (lower right corner of your Free or Pro Account), where Privacy Bee has a dedicated team of professionals on standby to help you during regular business hours.
We provide a vast collection of support resources to help you make the most of your External Data Privacy protection with Privacy Bee.
Still can’t find what you’re looking for? Contact a customer support representative directly.
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The Privacy Risk Score is based on the number of exposures identified, the popularity and size of the sources, the amount of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) contained in each exposure, and a variety of other proprietary factors, all aimed at assessing how at-risk you are from an External Data Privacy standpoint. The higher the risk score, the easier it is for a cybercriminal or threat actor to find your information online and target you, your family members, or your business with an attack. Cyberattacks infused with exposed PII are significantly more effective than those without it, including phishing, smishing, vishing, ransomware, spoofing, and numerous other identity-based attacks.
To improve your Privacy Risk Score, you must remove your personal data from the sites that expose it today. The most effective way to do this is to upgrade to a license and enlist the Privacy Bee team of trusted professionals to manage the data deletion process on your behalf. Each deletion can take anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes, depending on the specific process required by the website, so it is incredibly time-consuming to handle on your own.
With this in mind, Privacy Bee does provide data deletion guides for each exposure with a free account if you'd like to manage the process alone. Our mission is to fight against the exploitation of privacy, so we want to ensure everyone has access to the deletion guides that have taken our privacy professionals hours over the course of years to create. To view a specific guide, click "Active Exposures" in the navigation bar on the left side of your screen. Then, select an exposure and click "Deletion Guide" to review the step-by-step documentation.
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When this time-consuming process gets to be too much, since the average person has hundreds of data exposures after all, add a license to your account and then sit back and relax as your Privacy Risk Score decreases over time. With a Privacy Bee license, rest assured that our team is relentlessly working to remove your personal information from every site exposing it. As new exposures emerge, the scanning and monitoring service will pick them up, and our team will automatically be prompted to submit deletion requests on your behalf. It's genuinely a set-it-and-forget-it solution to give you back control of your online privacy.
If you ever have any questions or concerns about navigating a specific deletion, it's best to contact our mascot Orwell (lower right corner of your Free or Pro Account), where Privacy Bee has a dedicated team of professionals on standby to help you during regular business hours.
Didn't find what you were looking for?
We provide a vast collection of support resources to help you make the most of your External Data Privacy protection with Privacy Bee.
Still can’t find what you’re looking for? Contact a customer support representative directly.
Contact Us
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Updated on: 03/11/2025
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