Re:Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are p...
by beyondd on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:10PM
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Thanks for the good vibes, and glad you found the deep links useful!
To your second point about introducing "noise" into your profile at data brokers to make it more useless. That's an interesting idea, but unfortunately, not something we would touch at Operty. Data brokers have hundreds of upstream partners who supply them with information to enrich their profile on you. We send opt out requests to data brokers, and nothing else.
Re:Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are p...
by ipython on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:14PM
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I figured you wouldn’t touch it, since you’re a legitimate business and all. But … as previous employees at such data broker companies there must be some strategies that individuals could take to do so :)
Re:Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are p...
by dheera on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:51PM
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I'm currently using OneRep. Can someone please tell me if Optery is better and if OneRep will release all my information if I unsubscribe from them?
Re:Show HN: Optery – See the private info data brokers are p...
by DataBrokerLol on Monday June 28, 2021 @09:58PM
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There is nothing besides OneRep or any agreements/contracts you have with OneRep that can answer that question for you.
I signed up to take a look around. I’m excited that your free tier includes deep links to remove yourself.
What I would like more than this is a way to feed fake data into the system. Inadvertently I have done so in a variety of ways, such that I regularly receive AARP advertising materials and my landline is on a myriad of robocall lists for senior citizen scams. I would love to see a way to blast totally useless information associated with my name to make the data entirely useless.