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CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

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Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

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You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.

I don’t think that’s bad unless the seller claims to be representing the causes they’re selling for.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#22
post #20

Indusrty connections aside, it's not a good look that thaf the CEO of a privacy company did not register domains with some form of Whois privacy.

Why? I don’t understand this at all?

It’s largely unnecessary for corporate owned domains. You know who owns it from the website they publish.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#23

You see this a lot these days (though I suppose it's just more visible now). Another example is people selling political t-shirts (many offensive or obnoxious) to both sides of a partisan divide.

In the US, I feel like I only see one side buying merchandise. Especially offensive and obnoxious merchandise.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#24
I can’t give specifics, I know someone who had to deal with “delete me” requests from these “privacy” companies. The privacy company would literally take your personal info (name, email), and _email it to every company they could think of_ asking the company to delete your account _even if you didn’t have one_.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

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post #20

Indusrty connections aside, it's not a good look that thaf the CEO of a privacy company did not register domains with some form of Whois privacy.

Some TLDs prohibit Whois privacy altogether; this stance isn't maintainable globally.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#27
A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else.

You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with monthly fees.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#28
I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original user. So if someone search for a person, their search results would be flooded with garbage.

Since it seems very difficult to try to get a leaked identity removed, maybe try to hide a tree in the forest?

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#29

I wonder if there are reputation protection companies that try a different strategy: for every user that requests their service, prop up thousands of fake identities with the user's name, but each with some inconsistent profile that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the original user. So if someone search for a person, their search results would be flooded with garbage. Since it seems very difficult to try t…

Reputation management companies do this. It’s normally referred to as “disinformation”.

Re: CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms

#30

A not-so-secret dirty little secret is that many of the reputation management agencies also own many of the public records websites that publish mug shots, court records, and so on. When you hire them to remove that information from the internet it puts you into a cycle of being removed from one or two of their website and added to something else. You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with month…

It’s racketeering
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