[stiray]

What you have said is one thing. Intrusion like this can only be opt-in. But I am having another problem with opt-out with such a fishy company. Who guarantees me that after I send them my ID, they wont just take it, add the data to database and set a flag "hidden" to the records.

[hwbehrens]

Often, these companies will not only do as you suggested, they will turn around and sell your data at a premium (since it's been confirmed) to third-party companies before marking it as hidden.