While they make a few valid points, this does seem mostly like a butt hurt hit piece directed back at consumer reports. If anything, it proves that there is a need to automate this via a script of some sorts, and make middle man like them obsolete.
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Its one of those things where the people working on it would have to both be smart enough to do it and be more interested in the good it does than any money it can bring
Maybe it is too optimistic of me, but I think that someone like EasyOptOuts (Iām just using them as an example, not suggesting they specifically do this) could release their automations as an open-source tool, and there would still be enough interest from a lot of people in a paid SaaS product where they pay $20/year or whatever to not self-host it.
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hi, allāI 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 reportāwhile profiles do re-proliferate, for the most part weāve 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.
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