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Vermont’s law is a great first step, but also a very kid gloves approach. It appears their disclosure requirements are minimal, basically that the company exists and how to opt out. What I would love to see is a requirement to notify the party that their data is being sold. Yeah, that might be a pain, but they are after all selling something that arguably is not theirs. Does anyone know if other similar laws are in place for other states? Or are in the works?

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Isn’t California’s even better? You can tell them not to sell your data and on request, to delete it.

I don't know.. voter rolls seem to be how my fairly new California information got onto most of these people search websites.

Getting it off is not easy. First, there are so many of them. Second, half the ones I've found want you to register with them first and verify that it's you... which doesn't seem to fit the spirit of the law, but that's how it is.

It has been a long and frustratingly uphill battle to get my current name, address, phone number, etc removed from literally dozens of these data broker websites.

and I've tried to be careful. :/

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