How to remove yourself from data broker sites
To remove yourself from data broker sites, the first step is to create a burner email account. That’s an email that you will never use for any other purpose than making your data deletion request. In order to delete your data, you have to share your data by creating an account first!
Yes, it’s shady. But are you really surprised?
Once you set that up, pour yourself a cup of coffee and pull up a comfortable chair.
This is going to take a while.
It’s not easy to know exactly how to remove yourself from data broker sites. But it’s worth the peace of mind and added privacy! We’ll show you how.
It’s scary how much data brokers know about you by connecting the dots across all of these pieces of information! And they make so much money abusing your data: The industry generates up to $200 billion in revenue every year!
follow the steps via that URL it is time consuming but can be worth it 😉
https://privacybee.com/blog/how-to-remove-yourself-from-data-broker-sites/
Here’s how I tracked down the people selling my data, then stopped them
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/how-to-stop-data-brokers/
What Are Data Brokers?
Data brokering is a legitimate business that’s understandably gained notoriety among consumers. However, many people don’t even know this industry exists and that their personal data is being collected, sold, and used for a variety of purposes.
find out more about data brokers in this blog post very informative
https://blog.privacy.com/what-are-data-brokers/