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What these are are data broker sites, and data brokers buy and sell and trade and accumulate as much data about people as possible so they can then sell it to whoever comes by and wants to give them some money to get it.

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So what happens is, you know, you can go as a person and you can go opt out of some of these sites, but you're going to have to figure out the process for each one, upload documents, all this stuff.

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