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How do they get your data removed from the brokers' databases?

• tholtken 3y ago
  onerep.com "If you are located in the United States and have a Monitor Plus subscription, OneRep receives your first and last name, email address, phone number, physical address and date of birth in order to scan data broker sites to find your personal data and request its removal. OneRep keeps your personal data until you end your Monitor subscription in order to check whether your information shows up on additional sites, or has reappeared on the sites you’ve already been removed from."
  • riddley 3y ago
    I wonder how it works for people who use business-name@personal-domain.tld as their emails with whatever businesses.
• JohnMakin 3y ago
  They submit an opt-out request on your behalf. Frequently, the data will not be removed entirely, or re-surfaces later on. You're entirely dependent on the good will of the data broker sites, who are likely trying very hard to stop automation like this.
  • ethagnawl 3y ago
    > Frequently, the data will not be removed entirely, or re-surfaces later on. You're entirely dependent on the good will of the data broker sites, who are likely trying very hard to stop automation like this. This was my instinctual, cynical assumption, too. Unless there's a GDPR-like law in place and some standard for differentiating identities, they're just going to find loopholes to recapture peoples' data (e.g. remove middle initial, modify address format, etc.).
    • JohnMakin 3y ago
      I've used several of these services now and they all have the same issue - the thing is, the data brokers don't even use loopholes. They'll (sometimes) cooperate with removing the data, and then it just reappears in identical form sometime later, often very quickly. They pretend like it isn't their problem and the problem is their data sources that contain the data. It's the complete wild west.