Everyone is freaking out about Facebook having/owning your data, but they’re NKOTB (New Kids On The Block). There’s a slew of guys that have been carving up, packaging and reselling your personal information since before “Please Don’t Go Girl” started assaulting our ear canals. Here’s a cubic ton of data brokers, direct marketers and data aggregation services, with links to how you can opt your digits out of their databases.

DATA BROKERS

Ameridex
BeenVerified
Email Finder
InfoPay EmailTracer
Intelius, Inc.
LocatePeople.org
LocatePLUS
MelissaData.com
Merlin Information Services
PeopleFinders.com
Peoplelookup.com
PeopleSearchNow.com
People Search Pro
Phone Detective
PrivateEye
PublicBackgroundChecks.com
PublicRecordsNOW
USA People Search
US Search.com
Veromi.net
Westlaw
ZABA Inc.

Marketers, Direct Mail

Abacus Cooperative
Acxiom Corporation
Aristotle / Voter Lists Online
ChoicePoint Precision Marketing
Cox Target Media (Valpak)
DirectMail.com
DMAChoice
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
Epsilon Data Management, LLC
Haines Criss+Cross
Infogroup Inc.
LexisNexis
Money Mailer
Publishers Clearing House
Reader’s Digest
Suarez Corporation Industries
Valassis Communications, Inc.

People Directories

411.com
AnyWho
DA Plus
Fone Cart
Google Phonebook
infoUSA411.com
InfoSpace
Lycos
People Finder
PhoneNumber.com
Superpages.com
SwitchBoard
WhitePages Inc

Social Networks, Data Aggregators

123people.com
iSearch
PeekYou.com
Pipl
Radaris
Spock.com
Spokeo Inc.
Wink Technologies, Inc
Zoom Information Inc

Opt Out of Telemarketers

National Do Not Call Registry

Reduce Unsolicited Mail/Offers

Catalog Choice
Opt Out Services LLC

Opt out of Online Advertising

Network Advertising Initiative
Google’s DoubleClick
Microsoft Advertising

Removing your personal information from the Internet, data brokers, marketers, etc. [Pinching Your Pennies]

(Thanks to Bob!)

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