Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?
If anyone reading this thread is interested: I would pay non-trivial amounts of money on a regular basis for a service that systematically worked to eliminate records like these (and the sources they draw from), as well as chasing down sources of junk mail and the lists they ultimately draw from.<p>The value would depend on effectiveness, and on the degree to which the service clearly reported exactly what they did.  Calling and unsubscribing from sources of junk mail would be a moderate time-saver, but finding out <i>where</i> they got their names and addresses from and destroying <i>those</i> would be far more valuable.<p>It&#x27;d take some optimization and batching of the process to figure out how to avoid taking an excessive amount of time per person.