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Data brokers
Firms that quietly compile and sell a file on you - and your UK rights to stop them.
Understand it
Behind the people-search sites sit data brokers: firms that buy, merge and sell files on millions of people - names, addresses, spending, estimated income. You never signed up. Under UK GDPR you can object to direct marketing, which they cannot refuse, and ask for erasure, and the ICO publishes template letters for both.
How to spot it
Post or calls “tailored” to you from firms you have never dealt with mean your file has been sold on.
Close the gap
- Object to direct marketing - an absolute right under UK GDPR; the firm must comply.
- Use the ICO’s free template letters to object, or to ask for erasure.
- Register free with the TPS (calls) and MPS (post) to cut the legal marketing too.
- Our data-removal guide walks the whole route, broker by broker.
What to do about it
This is part of your plan - Trim what data brokers hold. Work through it there and you’ll close this off along with everything else it covers.