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So do we have any proof that these sites actually honor the opt-out requests and don't simply add the information we had to provide to them to their dossier? P

• tivert 8y ago
  > So do we have any proof that these sites actually honor the opt-out requests and don't simply add the information we had to provide to them to their dossier? I don't know, especially for scummy people search websites. However, I've requested a lot of disclosure reports and opted out of a lot of stuff, and I don't think I've volunteered anything the dataminer probably didn't already know. The real big names like Lexis Nexus and the credit bureaus have their tentacles in everything, so it'd be very difficult to hide your address, telephone number, and property information from them. The requests that require emails or phone numbers have never rejected throwaway accounts or non-personal phones numbers I have access to. I think they mostly ask for them to impede bulk opt outs.