Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

Having done data broker opt-outs manually using the Big Ass Data Broker Opt Out List (https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...), very little of the process can be automated. Intentionally. A few of these services ask you to go find your record among their lists first, so you can confirm which record you want removed using the URL of the record. So either it has to guess on that, or simply isn't doing it.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... is a useful place to start for opting out. As of this writing, this list does not include Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), a data broker mentioned in the article.

This kind of thing feels better left to trusted 1st parties, oneself. Link to a list of data broker opt out methods:https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

Closest thing I can find to roll your own. https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

Summary of what was posted earlier: 1) this is just a onerep rebrand. 2) there's this list: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... 3) a yn startup called optery is a competitor, kanary is also decent I think. I think the optery founder said 1 common use case is you can sign up for 3 months and then cancel. optery has a 20% coupon for men: ug2jhG1j and this one for women: olCpMjJI or maybe they're vice versa.

This should have all that and more: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... I always go back to this list every year or so to look through the major ones. At least for my relatively unpublic life, I have never gotten readded after the initial time I went through to delete everything. YMMV if you are more prolific with your public persona than I am, but like other comments have said, don't trust those 3rd-party services to do this for you because many use Mechanical Turk type of labor with your personal info to basically walk through this list themselves (i.e. people that might keep your PII for nefarious identity theft purposes). Edit: one thing I have that helps a lot that is unique is that my name is a slight misspelling of a famous athlete in a sport that is not at all popular where I live. When people search "_huayra_", they usually get results f

Generally I google my name for those directory data broker type websites every so often and see if any of the listings match up with my name/addresses I've been at (I have a fairly unique ethnic last name). Then I go through the process to get my info deleted (usually it involves giving them a link to the profile on their site, and an email to confirm delete. Use a temporary email, something like https://10minutemail.com/) Here's a list to get started: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... I've had the idea of auto scrubbing yourself from these websites as a side project idea, but never really committed to it

There are probably way too many data aggregators out there to keep track of completely, but theres definitely a few github repos I've seen that keep lists of both the companies and their opt-out procedures (some with automation). This is one of the better ones I've seen: https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... From a purely B2B perspective, the most egregious offender IMHO is Zoominfo largely because of the wide adoption in sales orgs. You can opt-out here: https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li... It's a pain to do, but it really helps to opt out of data broker lists. I have a reminder to do this once per year, and only the "diff" of my life updates show up (e.g. address reappears because I moved, changed voter registration as a result, etc). There are also services you can pay to do this, but they are usually priced extremely high or are straight up scams (i.e. they'll take your PII and then scam you with it). It's better to just do it yourself so you know there's no middlemen to be forced to trust.

It is not a service but a github page with helpful content which I recently came across. This has list of databrokers and their links to opt-out. https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...