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Could there be some sort of Robin Hood action to all of this? What if you took all the leaked data about millions of people and used that to opt out them out of
by lancesells 3y ago
Could there be some sort of Robin Hood action to all of this? What if you took all the leaked data about millions of people and used that to opt out them out of all the various services that buy and then sell the data?
- gzer0 3y agoThat is a possibility. Another scenario is one in which you sign up to a service like Optery and submit a non-existent individual with fabricated information for PII removal; after about a month or so, this fabricated individual started showing up as a possible person that lived at my address when I was trying to get a quote from Progressive. So, seems like somewhere in the midst of this process, one of the 240 brokers that Optery sends your information to get it removed, someone aggregated it, sold it to Progressive and in the underground realm of data brokers and buying and selling data, someone unfortunately (or fortunately?) is now targeting 'Paige Notfound' and 'Meg A. Byte'. I got the last laugh! :)
- dataflow 3y agoThanks so much for sharing this, I was wondering what would happen if I tried this. I guess this basically tells me to be weary of such services. Great info. P.S. Just a heads up that you may have basically revealed your address by sharing those fake names (though I haven't tried to search), unless you also made up those names just now for illustration...
- gzer0 3y agoThanks for looking out; those were not the actual names I used! I added those in for comedic effect ;)