@evacide It's starting to happen over here in the UK too - getting a lot of targeted marketing shite in my mail - contacted one this morning to get my data 'supressed' so it wont be used again.

Even my local authority has handed total management of council tax data to a data bank, which includes voting registration...currently selling said data to debt collection agencies, who then use it to dig even deeper into your data, adding data points as it goes.

Absolutely they should be destroyed!