Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus.
We don't even provide it, they just take it. You can't do anything to stop them. Getting inaccurate information removed is a full-time job.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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This isn't a new thing, these services have been around for a long time. True people search blew it out of the water and it's free. I highly suggest submitting a data removal request to them if you live in the US.
How do you submit it?
https://www.truepeoplesearch.com/removal
Follow the instructions on this page, got it done in a couple minutes
Holy shit! That site has everything. I have only seen the scam white pages and people search sites before, where it pretends to be scanning everything and then asks for your email, and then refuses to give you the report unless you pay them, and spams the shit out of you from that point forward.
Wow well that fucked up. Yet our government isn't doing shit about it. And shouldn't Truth Social be raided and shut down?
If a person is pirating they shut them down but this gets to continue.
government corruption is eating away at our ability to keep ourselves free.. it's all the way in the Supreme Court at ridiculously historic proportions..
Oh I know wondering when were going have enough of this and go French on their asses.
they're out there showing everyone how it's done, trying to wake us up from our cheeseburgers and nacho fries
Section 230. Not that I'm certain I want that law gone, but the host site isn't liable for this behavior.
I live in Sweden and you can find the adress of like 99% of the people living in Sweden by just doing a simple google search on their name. For example famous actor Stellan Skarsgård. I found his home adress in about 5 seconds.
Back in the before before times we were all sent a giant book full of everyone's address and phone number. If you didn't want to be in it you had to contact the phone company.
But that's all you had to do. Try making yourself dark now. It's a constant battle.
I will put getting your name removed from the yellow pages circa 2005 right up there with cancelling a gym membership, returning a used car, and immaculate conception.
yeah howd that turn out for sarah connors one and 2?
I think same thing applied also for Norway or Denmark. I remember discovering this one day and it seemed pretty wild.
There might be some ways around this. I think, for example, you could buy your home with a trust that does not identify you by name. However, there might be other tax consequences for doing it this way. But loopholes like this are what make it more difficult to find where rich people live.
I wonder how much discount they will give if I ask for all data about the 82%