200+ data brokers legally sell your home address — here's a step-by-step opt-out guide
thisdudelikesAI · x · 2026-09-14
The root post of the thread: 200+ data brokers are selling your home address, phone number and relatives' names to anyone with a credit card. It's how stalkers, scammers and doxxers find you. It's completely legal, and almost nobody opts out.
The thread then walks through a removal guide: quoted Google searches to find which people-search sites expose you most; California residents can use the CPPA's DROP platform to send one deletion request to 600+ registered brokers; manually hit upstream aggregators like Acxiom and LexisNexis; and use a burner email for opt-out confirmations. The industry is worth $200B+ a year.
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