With all the sales of customer information back and forth between businesses, chances are great that you’re life is awash with unwanted offers for all sorts of things you have no interest in. Not to mention calls from those reviled telemarketers. Well, World Privacy Forum has assembled a nice list of opt outs that might help bring back the missing peace and relative calm in your life.
“As privacy experts, we are frequently asked about “opting out,†and which opt outs we think are the most important. This list is a distillation of ideas for opting out that the World Privacy Forum has developed over the years from responding to those questions. The list below does not contain all opt outs that are available. Rather, it contains the opt outs that we believe are the most important and will be the most useful to the most consumers.”
I’ll be going through each one of these, step by step. I’m personally sick of offers for credit cards, insurance, and home equity loans (which are all the more humorous considering I’m a renter).