Tell the FTC: Give us a National Registry to Halt Data Broker Abuse
FTC
Data Brokers hoard intimate personal information on all of us, then sell it to anyone who will pay. The Federal Trade Commission should help us reject this dangerous and abusive business model with a do not call registry for data brokers!
Have you ever googled yourself, only to discover your home address, cell phone, legal names for generations of your family, and more on dozens of websites?
That’s the tip of the iceberg.
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Dear FTC Commissioners,
We call on you to defend hundreds of millions of Americans from the abusive business practices of data brokers. The vast majority of people do not want sensitive personal information that can be used to harm and harass us publicly listed and sold across the internet. Yet, there are over 500 data broker websites to opt-out from, and if you opt out once, data brokers will just put your information up again when they find it elsewhere.
Like Californians, who will receive a data broker opt-out option in 2026, everyone in the US deserves a one-click opt out to tell these data brokers to stop putting us and our loved ones in danger for profit. And we need it quickly, before AI supercharges both data broker-enabled scams and the bulk collection of sensitive personal data for brokers to exploit.
Just as you gave us a tool to protect ourselves by creating the National Do Not Call Registry to combat telemarketers and robocalls, we ask you now to do the same for data brokers. Whether we are poll workers, librarians, civil servants, abuse survivors, activists, veterans, journalists, or just someone who values the privacy of our home, we urge you to act with haste and give us the tools we need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned