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For EU-citizens, any legal data collection would have to be opt-in, right? If I've had no business with any of these companies, there should be no reason for me to have to opt-out.
If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
crunchbase is one such place. they harvested everything from my LinkedIn, I asked them to remove my profile they say it's not possible unless I also send them additional data (scan of my passport). they say it's impossible to remove my info because it is "crowd sourced" which may be the case today but from the data they have on me it is from when they had no users yet and when they scraped sh!t from linkedin: * Hello…
APOLLO
Dear Alex,
On behalf of Apollo, we are pleased to assist you in exercising your access rights under GDPR and/or CCPA. You may exercise your access rights as follows.
If you wish to remove the personal information that we have that is tied to your email address, then please respond to this communication by submitting the attached Identify Verification Form. We will then respond to your access request upon further email verification.
Why we require this: We require the above because GDPR and CCPA asks that we verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty before providing information: this is important, to avoid providing personal information to someone “spoofing” an identity. We believe this process provides that reasonable certainty while avoiding having consumers send us personal government IDs, which contain sensitive information and which we prefer not to receive. (And, unlike companies that deal directly with you, it’s not possible for us to verify you based on our prior relationship – like, by having you list your last movies watched, clothes purchased, or trips booked.)
If you prefer to avoid the above process, you can learn detailed information about the categories of personal information that Apollo collects, and how we source it, sell it, and use it for business purposes, by reviewing our Privacy Policy (available at: https://www.apollo.io/privacy). That Privacy Policy also will tell you how to easily opt out of our marketing databases.
Thank you for your interest in our business and data practices.
By opting out sometimes you have to provide them with even more information than what they initially had.
Exactly as most are asking for email which inadvertently can confirm the identity and if you use the same email for other services, they can get even more data about you. I guess it's a matter of trust, how much do you trust their 'opt out' promise.
I get a lot of hotel offers, essentially robocalls. Is there an opt out for the same?
If anyone cares, there are a nontrivial amount of companies who have your 'private' LinkedIn info. I don't know if they make fake accounts to friend you, recruiter profiles, or buy it from LinkedIn. I asked one to please remove my info, and they sent me a CCPA form. I told them I didn't live in California, and an agent acted confused and told me to just fill it out, it's the only way to remove it. In short, don't tru…
crunchbase is one such place. they harvested everything from my LinkedIn, I asked them to remove my profile they say it's not possible unless I also send them additional data (scan of my passport). they say it's impossible to remove my info because it is "crowd sourced" which may be the case today but from the data they have on me it is from when they had no users yet and when they scraped sh!t from linkedin: * Hello…
I'm surprised they have my name and address though it's a few years outdated. How did they get it? If I opt out, doesn't it confirm that what they have is accurate and make my data even more valuable? Given the nature of these sites, isn't it sketchy to provide DL to opt out or am I being paranoid?
For EU-citizens, any legal data collection would have to be opt-in, right? If I've had no business with any of these companies, there should be no reason for me to have to opt-out.
Despite this, loads of companies still do opt-out with impunity.
Are there any paid services that will do the work to opt you out of all of these?
Edit to add: I did read the other comments. joindeleteme seems like a scam/money grab. Yearly sub that autorenews, and a BBB rating displayed? Give me a real tech service.
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The US has been dismantling the rule of law for decades. They call it "deregulation". It lead directly to the last big financial crash, and it also is largely responsible for predatory schools, prisons, universities, banks, and much more.
I would argue that it's not only deregulation. It's the fact that we exist in a middle ground between proper regulation and a proper free market. Either of those, and we'd be able to do fine. As it is, we get the downsides of both.
For EU-citizens, any legal data collection would have to be opt-in, right? If I've had no business with any of these companies, there should be no reason for me to have to opt-out.
Does anyone have info on GDPR's success in getting data removed or fining companies? I am not following closely, but last I saw was GDPR is a law whose enforcement is untested.