BeenVerified Identity Theft, Stalkers, Invasion of Privacy, Internet

I've been through the "opt out" experience. In short, it sucks. This isn't about "feelings". It's about facts. The truth is that amassing much of this information would require an expensive and time-consuming effort, and the normal process would include several roadblocks and checkpoints for those accessing personal information. Your company and others like it allow strangers to bypass those natural roadblocks and checkpoints, thereby making it faster, cheaper and easier (your own words) to access personal information. You hold no one accountable. You require no identification from them. There is no vetting process in place to weed out suspicious individuals. You are aware there are people using your site for all the wrong reasons, yet you do nothing to prevent this from happening. 

I have written to my representatives, my state's board of elections/voter registration, the FTC, my state's Attorney General's office, and the AG's offices for states in which various personal data search websites/companies are headquartered, and I've begun a  campaign to create legislation much like several countries overseas have implemented in order to make you accountable for the information you release and to require a person's permission before you release it. 

You are openly assisting a number of potentially criminal activities by releasing personal information without asking the consent of those to whom it belongs. You need to be held accountable. Every time someone uses data from your site to commit a financial crime or to personally threaten or harm someone, you are complicit. You are as guilty as they of committing that crime. 

It's time for citizens stand up to bottomfeeders such as you and insist that our representatives and law enforcement agencies protect us from the likes of you. 

I'm very sorry to hear you feel this way.  BeenVerified is a searchable database of aggregated public records.   There are different ways to feel about the accessibility of this information and we respect your opinion.

More importantly, we respect your privacy.  If you would like to be removed from BeenVerified's search results, simply email us with your request and we will remove you at your request.  Email us at privacy@beenverified.com with the information you appear with on BeenVerified.  You will receive confirmation once we have received your request, and we will email you confirmation within two business days that your information has been removed.  Once you have been opted-out, the information is not still available for a fee and it is not re-categorized.  

We also provide these instructions on our site, for requesting the removal of your information from BeenVerified.  For more information, please see: https://www.beenverified.com/opt-out-instructions