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by beyondd 3y ago
Optery customers get Removals Reports every 90 days. PCMag.com wrote this about the Optery Removals Report: "With the Removals report, you see what was found along with a new screenshot demonstrating that the data was removed, and a li
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by beyondd 3y ago
For many its just getting their home address, phone number and email off the web, which can make you less of an easy target by attackers. For others its something really specific, like someone who is divorced and doesn't want their nam
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by beyondd 3y ago
Optery also has a Help Desk article on this catch-22 where in order to opt out of data broker sites, you must first tell them who you are, otherwise, how else would they know who to opt out: https://help.optery.com/en/a
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by beyondd 3y ago
One of the issues are OneRep's affiliate partnerships with the very data brokers you're paying them to remove you from: https://imgur.com/a/juSC66b
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by beyondd 3y ago
haveibeenpwned.com provides data breach monitoring, but does not remove personal info from data broker sites as Optery and Mozilla Monitor do.
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by beyondd 3y ago
Optery founder here. If you're taking a look at Mozilla Monitor, I recommend taking a look at Optery too: - Optery's Ultimate plan covers 300+ data broker sites and offers Unlimited Custom Removals providing the most comprehensive
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Optery (YC W22) is hiring a full-stack dev with Node experience (Latin America)(app.dover.io)
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Optery (YC W22) is hiring a full-stack dev with Node experience (Latin America)(app.dover.io)
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Optery (YC W22) – data privacy – is hiring a senior product manager (U.S.)(app.dover.io)
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Optery (YC W22) – Full Stack Developer with Node.js Experience (Remote and Israel)(optery.breezy.hr)
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by beyondd 3y ago
Optery founder here, we're a YC company (W22) that automatically scans and removes people from hundreds of these sites. (for U.S. residents only) There's a catch 22 where you have to be comfortable enough to submit your informatio
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by beyondd 3y ago
I think part of the change is the white pages was distributed in hard copy in your community. So only a finite number of people would have access and it would be costly to re-publish or re-distribute that hard copy information. Now anyone i
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by beyondd 3y ago
title updated
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Why company executives should not post their home addresses online(scmagazine.com)
6 points by beyondd 3y ago|12 comments
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Optery (YC W22) Hiring in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Business Ops(ycombinator.com)
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Optery (YC W22) Hiring in Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Business Ops(ycombinator.com)
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by beyondd 4y ago
Extensive analysis of Optery and the topic of removing your personal info from the web on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010
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by beyondd 4y ago
This is great, but removing the info from Google does nothing to remove it from the source. People search data brokers are one of the most common sources of unwanted posting of home address, phone number and email. If that's the info y
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery's Policy States: "To delete your personal information. If you want it to be removed from our systems, you should delete your account from the Login & Security section of your Account page and all of the information we h
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery provides fantastic opt out guides with more on the way here: https://www.optery.com/opt-out-guides/ To compare Removaly and Optery, the best thing to do is to sign up for each company’s free scan and compare the
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by beyondd 5y ago
16 years ago there were no privacy laws and very little public awareness and enforcement for privacy, so it was easy for data brokers to ignore removal requests and they operated largely unchecked. But a lot has changed since 2006. Real p
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by beyondd 5y ago
To compare Removaly and Optery, the best thing to do is to sign up for each company’s free scan and compare the results. The quality of a data removal company’s free scan is a good indicator of the quality of its opt outs. A lot of the co
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by beyondd 5y ago
DeleteMe covers 38 data brokers ( https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/ ). Optery covers 200+ data brokers ( https://www.optery.com/pricing/#data-brokers-we-cover ) Optery provides a free Ex
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by beyondd 5y ago
OneRep covers ~100 data brokers. Optery covers ~200 data brokers. OneRep has affiliate partnerships with data brokers ( https://imgur.com/a/juSC66b ). Optery does not have any affiliate partnerships with any data broke
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by beyondd 5y ago
When comparing data removal services like DeleteMe, Optery, PrivacyBee, Removaly, OneRep, LifeLock, The Kanary, and Reputation Defender, you should: 1) Sign up for each company’s free scan and compare the results. The quality of each compa
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by beyondd 5y ago
There are a lot of reasons why people submit opt outs beyond whether or not they can pay, e.g. victims of domestic violence, police officers, court order, public figures, government officials, members of the military, etc. The data brokers
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by beyondd 5y ago
Optery is opt out software. It uses a custom search technology to locate profiles being exposed and sold by data brokers online. It then automates the submissions and communications necessary to execute opt out requests to have the inform
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by beyondd 5y ago
Sorry. This was stated in the original post text above, but clearly many people did not see it. We do warn people before they submit any information. Many apologies.
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by beyondd 5y ago
Definitely. One of the main reasons Optery is only for U.S. residents at this time, is because the problem is at its worst here. We need a privacy law at the federal level with a strong right to opt out, and some teeth in the law for enfo
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by beyondd 5y ago
When a user signs up for Optery, the scanning / matching technology finds 70+ matched profiles at data brokers on average with a typical range from 50 to 100. You’ll find these results in your Exposure Report after the scan completes,

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