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by ZeWaka 35 days ago
It's worth sitting down for an hour and filing a bunch of information redaction requests.
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Might help with phone numbers, but addresses are trivial to find and cannot be removed, if you own property in the United States. Every county publishes property records, searchable by name. Unless you own your house with an LLC, if someone knows or can guess the state you live in, they can 1) search on the property records website of the top 10 counties by population, and if that fails 2) expand to searching other counties until you pop up. Not sure how to mitigate this, other than the LLC method.
Addresses can also be trivially found via voter records.
There are services that will submit this information to hundreds of sites for you.

I used incogni and it seemed to have a positive result.

https://incogni.com/

Or if you're in California: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/
Thank you! How’d you find out about this?
It was in the news when it went into effect at the beginning of the year.