Remove your address from data brokers and catalog mail stops following you Opt out of the data brokers that supply mailing lists and the catalog companies that rent those lists lose access to your address. That is the mechanism — and it is more durable than calling each catalog individually, because it cuts the supply …

Spokeo Feeds the Catalog Pipeline — and You Can Cut the Line Spokeo is not just a curiosity website where strangers look up old classmates. It is a live data feed that catalog companies, direct-mail houses, and downstream people-search aggregators pull from when they build their mailing lists. Every time your name and …

Whitepages Holds Records on Hundreds of Millions of Americans The Federal Trade Commission estimates that data brokers collectively hold files on virtually every U.S. adult, pulling together records from public documents, marketing databases, and purchase history into profiles that anyone can buy. Whitepages is one of …

BeenVerified is one of the biggest pipes feeding your inbox Every week, millions of Americans receive unsolicited catalogs, credit card offers, and promotional mailers they never requested. A significant share of that mail traces back not to a business you shopped with, but to people-search data brokers — companies …

One Opt-Out Is Not Enough: Intelius and the PeopleConnect Network Most people who discover their home address listed on Intelius go straight to the opt-out page, fill in the form, and check the box — then assume the problem is solved. That assumption is where the trouble starts. Intelius is one property inside a larger …

MyLife is one of the slower removals — and that's worth knowing before you start The Federal Trade Commission sued MyLife.com in 2020 — FTC v. MyLife.com, Inc. — over subscription billing practices and misleading claims about background reports. The agency alleged that MyLife charged consumers without clear consent and …

Acxiom is not a people-search site — it is the engine behind your catalog pile Most people who try to stop catalog mail focus on the obvious targets: unsubscribe links on the catalogs themselves, the DMA opt-out registry, maybe a few people-search sites. What they miss is the layer that makes all of it possible in the …

The Pipeline Behind Your Mailbox Every piece of unsolicited catalog mail arriving at your door passed through a supply chain before it got there. That chain begins long before a catalog company ever hears your name. It starts with ordinary, unremarkable transactions — buying a house, signing up for a store loyalty …

Hundreds of millions of Americans are searchable by name right now Type a name and a city into Spokeo or Whitepages and you get a home address, phone number, age, relatives, and often a neighborhood map pin — within seconds, for free. The Federal Trade Commission has documented this dynamic for years: data brokers …

California law gives you a statutory right to disappear from data broker databases California residents hold something most Americans do not: a legally enforceable right to demand that data brokers delete their personal information and stop selling it. That right comes from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), …