Services for removing your data from public databases (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by slug@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Last year I did a major fuckup and bought a .us domain without noticing that they don't support WhoIs privacy, so my name number and address became part of the public WhoIs database scrapes. Since then my spam texts and calls have vastly multiplied. I'm realistic about the fact that the damage is done and it'll always exist out there, but I would happily pay some money to a service that sends takedown requests for the data in the public databases like LexisNexis etc. to lessen the damage. Do you know of any services that do this somewhat reliably? Or even a guide or something about doing this manually?

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[-] slug@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

anyone else have experience with this one?

[-] Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I haven't but 20 bucks is 20 bucks.

[-] beats_and_bytes@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I use it and haven’t had any issues with it.

[-] swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve used it for myself and family. The guy who made it was on reddit saying how ridiculously priced the alternative services were which is why he made easyoptouts.

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