- Browse Businesses
- Guides
- Consumer Tips
- Write a Review
- For Business
- Request a Review
- Backed by the National Science Foundation
- Sign up
- Log in
I am trying to remove my presence from the internet & have been pretty sucessful. Until I got to SearchBug.com. It is hard to imagine that it can be LEGAL for a website to operate like this! Why is it ok for them to sell me the right to remove my information from their site? Does anyone EVER get a free listing, which they say can be easily removed? Where do they get permission to list me as a Premium listing, which, of course, will cost me $20 to have removed? I cannot imagine that his can be LEGAL!
I, unfortunately signed up for Angie's list 2 years ago. I never used the service. I discovered a $16.66 charge on my charge card from Angie's List. I contacted them, and unfortunately I had 30 days to cancel the service, but the "service will just end on April 17,2019" because I did not contact them within 30 days. It should be illegal for them to advertise that they are free. I never thought about it again, the current tv ad says they are now free! Free unless you have the bad fortune of having actually paid for a subscription 2 years ago! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! THERE ARE FREE SERVICES WHICH ARE ACTUALLY FREE. FALSE ADVERTISING!
Kathie hasn’t received any thanks yous.
Kathie doesn’t have any fans yet.
Kathie isn’t following anybody yet.
Empty.
If you are trying to remove yourself from the internet there is an article on CNN here that can help you. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/remove-delete-yourself-from-the-internet/
With that said, there are no laws that require public records research companies to obtain permission to gather public records and present them in a readable form online for sale. This is exactly like the old printed white pages from your phone company. If you wanted to be “unlisted” from 411 or the white pages you paid the phone company a fee.
There are no laws being broken nor is it illegal for a company to collect a fee for doing work. We charge a fee since it takes time and effort to block records from showing up since we don't own any of the data. It's obtained from all over the interent. Don't want to have your information online anywhere, follow the steps in the article above. It's really unfortunate that people can give any company a bad rating and complain about them without merit or even being a customer.
Anyone can get personal public information simply by visiting other public records information providers, or at the city or county office, especially if you own property or file any public record documents. Due to the Freedom of Information Act, it’s all quite legal.
We charge a fee to “block” records from the premium data from showing up on the website since it takes time and resources. Our staff must spend time and effort to block records. We have a posted Opt-out policy (which is not required by law) for anyone that wants to be blocked. Legally we don't need to offer a way to opt-out due to the Freedom of Information Act but do so as a courtesy and hence charge a fee due to the administrative costs.
Our data comes from many sources which are of public record stemming from the FCRA - http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/031224fcra.pdf
Further information that answers all the questions on the attached document can be found here: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/infobrokers.htm
This is a list of online data brokers that sell similar information - http://www.privacyrights.org/online-information-brokers-list
As a courtesy, which could have been accomplished by simply calling our toll free 800 number we would like to offer to block your information from showing up on our website without a fee, but we do not have enough information to do so. If you’d like to email support with a copy of this review and a screenshot of the information you would like blocked, we’d be happy to help you as a courtesy. However, starting sometime in early 2019 we plan to remove access to all the previews so no one’s information will be shown publicly. We hope that provides you with some satisfaction.