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 …

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 …