And there’s an entirely legal industry that peddles that and other personal information for a price. Anyone trying to remove information must contact dozens of different services to do so. Some remove information only for a fee. There are laws around the dissemination of personal information like home addresses, but they’re stuck in the era of phone booths and yellow pages. Home address privacy is governed mainly by 1990s legislation like the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (regarding the collection and release of information gathered by states to issue licenses for driving) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (which partly regulates how banks handle personal information).

Source: New York Times December 16, 2018 20:25 UTC