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> It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat) There are a number of companies (
by jolmg 28d ago
> It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat)
There are a number of companies (e.g. Delete Me) that offer that service. They wouldn't have caught the subject of this post since it was a breach.
The problem here arose from ID verification where you need to show your ID to an entity that then has the opportunity to store it.
- mitxela 27d agoMost of these companies are themselves data harvesting scams. You have to give them all your data so they know what to delete. Then they sell that data.
- 0xmattf 27d agoThis is true. I think Brian Krebs reported on a scam involving this. Some of those data deletion companies actually own the data companies...