What I would love to know is who is selling my info. I get texts from all kinds of politicians but I didn't know who sold them my number. Seems like selling someone's property without their approval should be illegal. It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat)

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devinplatt 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

At least here in California (maybe the whole US) I think there is a law requiring the government to give our phone numbers to politicians to spam us.

Seems crazy until you realize politicians write the laws

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0xmattf 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What I would love to know is who is selling my info.

Car dealerships. Heck, even the DMV. Sign up for Credit Karma? Enjoy credit card offers arriving to your house. It seems everyone is "in" on selling/sharing our data. If you ever read the terms of services, you'll usually see a "third party partners", or something like that, which mentions how they "share" your data.

Opt out should be the default, but it isn't.

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jolmg 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> It'd be great if I could request who sold them my data, then go to that entity tell them to stop selling (rinse and repeat)

There are a number of companies (e.g. Delete Me) that offer that service. They wouldn't have caught the subject of this post since it was a breach.

The problem here arose from ID verification where you need to show your ID to an entity that then has the opportunity to store it.

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mitxela 2 days ago | parent [-]

Most of these companies are themselves data harvesting scams. You have to give them all your data so they know what to delete. Then they sell that data.

	▲	0xmattf 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		This is true. I think Brian Krebs reported on a scam involving this. Some of those data deletion companies actually own the data companies...