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I 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
by troydavis 5y ago
I 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.
- beyondd 5y agoThis is great! A lot of people prefer to submit the opt outs themselves. Our Free Basic account can be used to help people do-it-yourself faster by helping with the discovery process. If you choose to sign up for Optery, next to each data broker listing we provide the opt out link and opt out email address to make it easy to navigate to. When submitting your own opt outs to these companies directly, we highly recommend creating a disposable email address, and Not using your primary email address, as just reaching out to them with an email often adds you to their email lists.
- cgb223 5y agoDid you follow up to see if they actually removed you? How many actually did?
- troydavis 5y agoAll of them responded when my listing was removed, and I could see that they were gone.