intelius.com: Anyone here know how to remove themselves

[Pharlo]

from this parasitic database that sells your personal information?

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Good luck:

http://www.intelius.com/privacy-faq.php#5

[Pharlo]

3. Thank you.

I thought I'd perused everything, but apparently, I hadn't.

[Gormy Cuss]

2. Call your congress rep and ask for REAL PRIVACY rather than REAL ID.

There's nothing illegal about what Intellius and other data mining vendors are doing. A perversion of public records laws? You betcha. The laws weren't written in the current era.

[Pharlo]

4. True, but it's the same in this instance as it is in

the healthcare debate. They'll remove your name from their database if you're a government official. So, they're exempt. They don't care about their constituents. Congress, as a whole, has proven that time and again.

[suninvited]

5. One time I was sending some money to my daughter

through Western Union (totally outdated method of money sending now, I know, but this was five years ago)

Even though I had sent money online before, they wanted me to call them to verify my identity. I had to answer three questions before they would approve me.

1. What was the year of the car I had registered in Florida in 1999? easy question
2. What city did Elizabeth (last name) live in. (this was my ex husbands mother, from whom I had been divorced from since 1985) I happened to know the answer.
3. What city did Tabitha (last name) live in. (this was a relative of my second ex husband, who I had no idea who was or where she lived).

so I got another question

4. How old was Jamie (last name)? (this was ex husband #3's daughter, who had married since I had seen her last and had a new name, but I guessed who it was and got her age right).

I asked them where the hell they were getting these questions. Public records, they told me. They had just relived my life for the previous 20 years!