For anyone who has been on the internet for a long time, spam emails, WhatsApp messages and even spam calls are a fact of life. Our personal data is used by hundreds of different marking and advertising companies, all facilitated by data brokers whose entire business model revolves around harvesting and selling your data.
There’s nothing stopping you reaching out to these companies to ask them to remove your data. It’s entirely free to do this, and you can even have your personal details added to a company’s suppression list to ensure that they won’t use your data again. The issue here is that you first need to know who to contact, and then you need to email each broker individually to request your data be removed.
