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A comment on Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by stevedekorte on Monday March 06, 2017 @10:40PM (#13808102)
Good to know. Let's all start ordering pizza's, etc under random other names. Create a haystack to hide the needle.
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by smhost on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @02:35AM (#13808876)
A better strat would be if we all agreed on a single name for everyone to use.
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by goombastic on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @04:19AM (#13809223)
I propose Null or Drop Table.
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by spoiler on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @05:10AM (#13809390)
Why not both? :)

https://xkcd.com/327/

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by gcb0 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @10:52AM (#13811298)
easy to filter out
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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by cema on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:18PM (#13812304)
This would not work, the data is heavily cross-referenced. You would simply have more names (as possible neighbors, or rather co-habitators) in your account.
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