You’ll need some background on our DeleteMe service for the following post to make sense: our service deletes your personal information from many of the largest people search websites that list it. These are sites like Intelius.com, Spokeo.com, and WhitePages.com. We monitor your personal information online to ensure that it doesn’t return, and we [...]
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Sticking it to the people search companies
Tell us if this situation sounds fair to you: dozens of websites you’ve never heard of are publicly displaying and selling your personal information–your address, phone number, email address, family members, etc.–and profiting off it. The companies selling your personal info don’t ask you first if it’s okay, and you don’t make any money from [...]
In ironic news, background check website Intelius launches TrueRep privacy service
Updated 10/11/2011: Although TrueRep does have paid features, we’ve learned that it’s free to suppress your data from appearing on Intelius and three of its partner sites. Suppression is limited to your two most recent addresses and one phone number, and it doesn’t extend to Intelius’s other partner and affiliate sites, such as Zabasearch, PeopleLookUp, [...]
[INFOGRAPHIC] How people search websites (AKA data brokers) get your information
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