hi, all–I worked on this report and wanted to answer some questions.
How many profiles total did each person have reported by each service
This ranged from 10 to 13.
Why did they not check back to see if the users had new profiles after their initial removal? Seems like a glaring black hole in the methodology.
Honestly, we had time and budget constraints, but the other reason is the one mentioned in the report–while profiles do re-proliferate, for the most part we’ve noticed that these remain deleted in the time frame we looked at.
Did any of the services they used have legitimate ties to data brokers/people search site? That would be very useful before I decide to use one of these sites
Not any of the ones we tested. We mentioned other ties in the report on pages 12-13.