Why artists and their teams need to start thinking seriously about the data they've left strewn across the internet.

Hello and Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.

On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Anthony Davenport, the CEO and founder of New York-headquartered Regal Credit Management.

Regal Credit, as the name suggests, helps high-profile and high-net-worth individuals with their credit – both in terms of building it and protecting it.

Regal Credit, which was recently named on the Inc. 5000 list of companies in the US, counts many clients from across the music business

The particular reason we invited Davenport on this podcast was to discuss a tool of Regal’s called CyberSweep.

CyberSweep is a data removal service that either suppresses or outright deletes personal information from across the internet – whether on the dark web or more legitimate sites.

According to Davenport, Cyber Sweep has been used by very high-profile figures in the music business including superstar artists - who are looking to protect themselves both from fraudulent online activity, and from stalking from fans.

On this podcast Davenport discusses why he believes such activity is becoming a growing societal problem, and we also get time to dig into Davenport’s own interesting origin story that led to the birth of Regal Credit.