Has anyone ever done this by going to the website of a data broker and using their opt out form?
Obviously to do this they ask for information so they know what not to include, but it feels like I’m just giving my data to them or confirming what they already have.
Just wondering what other people think since I haven’t heard anyone talk about this yet.
I tried a few manual requests by email a couple years back, they all got straight up ignored. I ended up paying for a removal service, and I’ve had better luck with them, I think they claim I’ve been removed from 70% of the ~150 brokers they target; I spot checked a few of the big ones to confirm.
It is worth noting that between county property tax records and voter registrations both being public (in the US), there isn’t much hope of actually keeping this data private. But I do get fewer spam calls than I used to, so that’s something.
How did you do this? Do they all have databases that can be searched, or was it through your removal service?
Hmm. I knew about tax records being public, but not voter registrations.
No not all of them, just a few of the public databases like peoplefinders and whitepages.
I work in an enclave city for the ultra-rich. We have lots of celebrities and billionaires. There are fewer than 1000 homes and the taxable value of residences in town is nearly 4 billion.
Anyway: it’s hard to know who owns what because most of them put their property under an LLC named after the address to protect their privacy.