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jolmg 3 days ago

> 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.

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...