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Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are posting about you online
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#32What about ZoomInfo? Can it remove my profile from there?
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#33What about ZoomInfo? Can it remove my profile from there?
I mean if I am going to pay that much, would be nice to remove it from a huge provider that leads to tons of spammy sales calls, rather than the low hanging niche ones like spokeo
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#34Congrats on your product. I'm curious what lead to you all creating this product, after you spent "years working at data brokers." Perhaps this is too harsh an analogy, but how is this different than someone who spends years working at a tobacco company and then launches a company which sells a smoking cessation product? As other comments here point out, even the process of opting out of these brokers via Optery requ…
I am also curious about this, and would like a response before signing up. You’ve established your knowledge of data brokerages, but not your motivations.
Did you all have a change of heart? Just see a product opportunity?
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#35I did a version of this by Googling my name (as a phrase, with and without middle initial) combined with city names or street address fragments I’ve lived at. I then submitted removal requests for anything I found. I ended up submitting about 10 requests, 7 or 8 of which were online. Of course, not all data brokers have publicly indexed page, but a lot do.
Did you follow up to see if they actually removed you?
How many actually did?
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#36With sites like this one, I'm always left considering what happens when the site "helping" me gets bought out (or changes business models) and sells me out anyway.
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#37Doesn't work for Canada? Only lets me put in US states
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#38All you need to know: > If you purchase a paid subscription plan, as a condition to fulfilling your subscription plan, (i) you must provide your personally identifiable information(“PII”) such as full name, birth year and home address to Optery, Inc. and (ii) Optery, Inc. must send your PII to the data brokers and information aggregators included in the Removal Lists. This information is required by the data brokers…
how exactly would it work otherwise?
A hash of a unique identifier? Most of the "databroker" APIs I've worked with only use hashed identifiers..
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#39What about ZoomInfo? Can it remove my profile from there?
I mean if I am going to pay that much, would be nice to remove it from a huge provider that leads to tons of spammy sales calls, rather than the low hanging niche ones like spokeo
Hi! Co-creator of Optery here.
This is a great question. There are hundreds of data brokers across different categories (e.g. people search, email, phone, audience marketing, geolocation, past purchases, TV viewing, etc). Many data brokers operate across categories.
We've started off with the People Search Site category first because that's where we sensed the most pain from the users we spoke with.
We are constantly expanding our coverage, and will be adding more data broker categories in the near future. ZoomInfo is high up on the list to be added soon because we get asked about them a lot.
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#40So I like removing myself from data brokers as a side hobby. In general they seem to be pretty quick to do so. However, OpenCorporates lists my name & home address, and absolutely refuses to remove it, as I'm self-employed and I have a corporate registration with my state. I eventually contacted the CEO directly and he said 'no, we won't remove you, go away'. They're based in the UK. Any general thoughts on them?