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In the US, I would assume your employer (via payroll or “work number”, or your banks/credit cards/credit reporting agencies, or even retailers like Amazon or Wa

In the US, I would assume your employer (via payroll or “work number”, or your banks/credit cards/credit reporting agencies, or even retailers like Amazon or Walmart are selling that information. Or the USPS when you let them know where to forward your mail to after you move: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-post-office-sells-your-new-address-with-anyone-who-pays-and-the-little-known-loophole-to-opt-out/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/08/how-the-p... Edit: and of course, as kstrauser points out, voter registration records.

sneak 2y ago
None of those organizations ever receive my primary residential address, only my tertiary one. Fortunately in the US you are allowed to have more than one home. Absolutely nothing with my name on it goes to where I usually sleep. To divulge sensitive information like that is actively unsafe for certain types of people, because, as you note, almost every single vendor with whom you do business will blast it out all over the ecosystem until it shows up on SEO spam websites forever.