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I’m sure in some countries that would make them liable. It’s a shame the US probably isn’t one of them, our litigative culture would put an end to that stupidity very quickly.
Just fill out the forms on your next trip to Europe?
be careful you guys. these are awful people collecting this data, and i'm pretty suspicious that they will use the additional data they gather form you when you opt out ("for proof its you") and use it against you in their other databases. for instance, i confirmed my phone and email info in order to opt out of one but another clone site now says my information is "Verified".
ZoomInfo (public company) for example provides a free plugin for sales people which is scanning email for all the email signatures and then they sell all that data to their customers. Even crazier is they take data from their customer’s CRM systems.
DiscoverOrg is buying data from third parties without really knowing how they got the data.
There are a bunch of apps and browser plugins that read your emails or contacts and then those companies sell that data to third parties like these data brokers. I use very few browser plugins because of this threat.
If you have somehow acquired a list of contacts you can get a lot of these companies to purchase it with very few questions.
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I'd love to know what kind of false information you're enjoying sending them, and how!
- Fill out surveys at malls with your name and either a phone number or address that matches one currently in your credit file and you can supply false info for the the opposite. - Put in a mail forwarding card with your name from a former address to a random real address like a Starbucks, Taco Bell, apartment complex w/o unit number, etc. - Change the billing address of a credit card or utility and allow to sit for…
I'm curious if anyone has any info on the business model here. There seems to be a ridiculous number of data brokers, so with this amount of competition, the marginal profit must be low. Online advertisers probably get better bank for buck just using Google's or Facebook's pre-targeted profiles. Banks and financial institutions and real background checks probably stick with the few big ones (credit bureaus, or lexis…
I'm surprised they have my name and address though it's a few years outdated.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?
I highly recommend OneRep ( https://onerep.com/ ) as a service to remove you from these websites. I've been using it myself for a while and it has saved me a lot of headache. For those of you who do want to remove all of the info yourself, I've found this is also a good resource: https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf
From the research I have done, Onerep is also a data broker that lists your data online https://www.privacyduck.com/comparisons/privacyduck-vs-onere...
Checkout CircleBack which is a free tool that scrapes your email for contacts for you. Now look at their CEO. He also owns a data broker. I am sure he is selling the CircleBack data.
I highly recommend OneRep ( https://onerep.com/ ) as a service to remove you from these websites. I've been using it myself for a while and it has saved me a lot of headache. For those of you who do want to remove all of the info yourself, I've found this is also a good resource: https://inteltechniques.com/data/workbook.pdf
From the research I have done, Onerep is also a data broker that lists your data online https://www.privacyduck.com/comparisons/privacyduck-vs-onere...
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…
LinkedIn is pure cancer. They actively tempt you to message your contacts in a way where you think that the recepient would welcome your message right now but it's an opposite situation. This at best creates a communication gap and is at worst rude and might break up communication. I'm shocked that Microsoft which is primarily bases on trust as far as corporate stuff is concerned went for linkedin. I hope they sell t…
There are just two possible outcomes.
Default to David Brin style radical transparency. With a pay-for-privacy grift on top.
Or we get serious about privacy. That means translucent databases (hash all PII, just like password files), Real ID (no anon, no bots, registered alias ok), and extend property rights to our personal data (it's my data, pay me).