https://www.stopcatalogs.com/series/per-broker-guides/Recent content in Per-Broker Guides on StopCatalogs.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenStopCatalogs.comSun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-spokeo/Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-spokeo/ <h2 id="spokeo-feeds-the-catalog-pipeline--and-you-can-cut-the-line">Spokeo Feeds the Catalog Pipeline — and You Can Cut the Line</h2> <p>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 address appear on Spokeo, that record can be licensed, scraped, or re-aggregated by dozens of other companies before it ever reaches the printer that labels the furniture catalog sitting in your recycling bin.</p>https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-whitepages/Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-whitepages/ <h2 id="whitepages-holds-records-on-hundreds-of-millions-of-americans">Whitepages Holds Records on Hundreds of Millions of Americans</h2> <p>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 the oldest and most widely used of these services — its free search tier alone draws tens of millions of monthly visitors, and its data feeds into background-check tools, reverse-phone lookups, and the mailing list engines that catalog companies use to find new customers.</p>https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-beenverified/Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-beenverified/ <h2 id="beenverified-is-one-of-the-biggest-pipes-feeding-your-inbox">BeenVerified is one of the biggest pipes feeding your inbox</h2> <p>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 that aggregate public records, voter registrations, property filings, and social media profiles and sell the resulting dossiers to marketers, employers, landlords, and anyone else willing to pay.</p>https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-intelius/Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-intelius/ <h2 id="one-opt-out-is-not-enough-intelius-and-the-peopleconnect-network">One Opt-Out Is Not Enough: Intelius and the PeopleConnect Network</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>Intelius is one property inside a larger corporate network called PeopleConnect. Its siblings — Truthfinder, Instant Checkmate, and US Search — draw from many of the same underlying data sources. Opting out of Intelius scrubs your record from Intelius. It does nothing to the listings on those sibling sites. Each maintains its own database, its own opt-out pipeline, and its own re-population schedule. If catalog companies, telemarketers, or anyone else queries the network, your data remains available through the brands you skipped.</p>https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-mylife/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-mylife/ <h2 id="mylife-is-one-of-the-slower-removals--and-thats-worth-knowing-before-you-start">MyLife is one of the slower removals — and that's worth knowing before you start</h2> <p>The Federal Trade Commission sued MyLife.com in 2020 — <em>FTC v. MyLife.com, Inc.</em> — over subscription billing practices and misleading claims about background reports. The agency alleged that MyLife charged consumers without clear consent and made it difficult to cancel. The case is a matter of public record at ftc.gov and it puts the company's track record squarely in context: this is not a broker that has historically made privacy easy.</p>https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-acxiom/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.stopcatalogs.com/post/opt-out-acxiom/ <h2 id="acxiom-is-not-a-people-search-site--it-is-the-engine-behind-your-catalog-pile">Acxiom is not a people-search site — it is the engine behind your catalog pile</h2> <p>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 first place.</p> <p>Acxiom — now operating as part of LiveRamp — is one of the largest marketing-data brokers in the world. Its business is not surfacing public records for background checks. Its business is building detailed consumer profiles — name, address, purchase history, household demographics, inferred interests — and licensing that data in bulk to advertisers, retailers, and direct-mail catalog companies. When a catalog company wants to reach &quot;women aged 40–60 in the Mountain West who have purchased home goods in the past 18 months,&quot; they rent a list. Acxiom is frequently the source, or one of the primary sources, of that list.</p>