@dangoodin @kevinpurdy @yaelwrites fwiw, I want to gently disagree with this framing of the results – I think there’s still a lot of value in these services in terms of time saving and not having to figure out how to deal with the people search sites. Obviously there’s a different value level between the best vs the rest, but although they are imperfect and incomplete, they will still save users some time doing opt outs. Though some degree of manual work remains necessary no matter which one you use.

The research also doesn’t call out the additional scope that some services cover - in particular I want to give kudos to Kanary which surfaces more than just data broker content AND has some security guidance as well.

Fundamentally, though, these are all imperfect band-aids that don’t replace good regulations. Americans deserve better privacy protection at a systemic level.