You end up in a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Complete with monthly fees.
Pay and your problems magically go away. Proofpoint was consistently the only block hit.
In many cases, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, but that fact may be concealed, with the intent to engender continual patronage.
They control the supply (the sites with your info) and the demand (the sites you can go through to request it get taken down)
/s, obviously
You know, those entities that hoover up any and all info on you, that you cannot opt out of, maintain information whether its accurate or not and refuse to delete obviously erroneous data, then release it *all* to the world by being extremely poor stewards of said data, then charging you for credit monitoring for the rest of your life, since your immutable info just got shared with assholes.
Guess who owns most/all of the credit monitoring entities?
Edit: typo...words are hard.
Additionally, if you haven't, freeze your credit at all bureaus including LexisNexis.
I wish you good luck opting out. I'm not talking about what the law says, I'm talking about how they act.
Technically, you can dispute incorrect info. What that dispute amounts to is the bureau asking the entity if it's accurate. No proof needed. If they say it's accurate, then you're stuck with it, until you jump through many, many more hoops.
I guess we could say it’s the data privacy mafia.
Some places don't allow use of smart phone. They actually ask you check your phone into a coat check type thing at door! One journalist friend often leaves the smart phone at home.
putting all that on a device that you don't control and that "strangers" at apple or google can access or make changes to at any time, and without any notice to you and without any permission from you sounds like a step backwards in security and privacy.
Cabaret at the Kit Kat club in London places a sticker over any camera lens. The Burnt City, an immersive theatrical experience, makes you place your phone in a pouch that is then sealed with a tamper evident fastening before you enter the venue.
It wasn't paranoia it was a healthy dose of "if this is possible, someone is doing it"
Turned out they in fact were doing it.
Everything else is fair game apparently.