Best service to remove you from data brokers?

In South Africa you could add your contact details to the Direct Marketers' Association's Do Not Call list, but the list was hacked and the contact details sold.

I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well

Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR

Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR.

(And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)

I'd love it if there was a national "Do Not SMS" list. (Especially during this US election season).

Though I'd assume companies like Twilio would massively lobby against it.

I used to work for a pair of real estate investors involved in a pyramid scheme in my early days as a developer. The investors would pay a lot of money to access a data broker to find houses that were, for example, going through foreclosure, short sale, arbitration, etc. We got some pretty violent phone calls regarding how exactly we knew what we did—your home is usually the last thing you want to lose next.

There isn’t any panacea for scrubbing your data from these brokers. All the spam email, texts, calls, or even snail mail most of the time are coming from hydras like the real investors I mentioned, not large companies. Personally, I’m so sick of spam emails, smses, and calls that I’m just going to bite the bullet and start over by making an anonymous email/sms/voip service with Twilio (I did this professionally for 7 years) and put an end to it all.

Usually, these services require even more data than they already have. EG: Govt id, phone number, etc.

It is usually not worth the effort.

When I used to work at Reputation dot com they had a service that would do this, opting out of most of the worst of the data brokers and other mailer/aggregation companies. They've pivoted to corporate reputation management AFAIK, but may still have the personal opt-out service as a side benefit.

I used https://brandyourself.com/ a while ago when I was starting a new company...had a connection to the founder over there so decided to give it a shot. They seem to have added more functionality over the years, but I cannot speak to those. What I can say is it met my expectations at the time, and if they successfully developed what was on their road map its probably a decent place to start.

I also downloaded an email client that let me instantly unsubscribe from lists I was somehow on, use a VPN, DuckDuckGO even has an app...idk, I mean the list goes on...i found that in the end, it was up to me to make sure i was closing myself off intelligently while digitally engaged.

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...

Not exactly what you're asking for, but may help others https://saymine.com/

I wonder whether any service save witness protection or hitmen can achieve such wonders. Would be nice though.

I bought an Alcatel flip phone without GPS capability. Cost me $40 minus the price I got for selling my iPhone. Now my data is useless!

Death?