Who holds data about you
Pick where you live and see who trades in data about people there, what each kind of broker publishes, and the route we checked for making them erase yours.
This is not a scan, and it will not pretend to be one.
Everyone else in this market opens with a scan that says it found you. To actually know what a broker holds about you specifically, someone has to query that broker as you, which means scraping sites that forbid it and taking your name and address before you have agreed to anything. We are not doing that to sell you a subscription. What is below is true, checkable, and costs you nothing to see.
12 brokers in our register trade in data about people in the UK. Another 1 is held back because we could not verify its route.
Business contact databases
11 in the registerWhat this kind of broker publishes:
- · Work email address
- · Direct dial number
- · Job title and employer
- · Professional history
Marketing data brokers
1 in the registerWhat this kind of broker publishes:
- · Household and lifestyle segments
- · Purchase and response history
- · Postal and email targeting lists
What to do about it
Write to all 12 at once. Each request is worded for the ground that particular broker relies on, and carries the date it has to answer by.
Write my erasure requestsEvery broker listed has a route we checked ourselves, with the date on its entry in the register.