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> Of the 92 brokers she identified that accepted opt-outs, 65 of them required her to submit a form of identification such as a driver's license. In the end, she could not remove her data from the majority of providers.

So what exactly was the problem? She doesn't have a driver's licence?

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Maybe she didn't want to share a lot of personal documents with companies that profit by selling her personal information. Obviously there's no reason for them to require a driver's license except to make it so inconvenient to opt-out that nobody does it.

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