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Uh, I got bad news. If I search for my name, there are freely and publicly available online directories that show all my past addresses (and phone numbers) going back over 20 years. That’s why I had to pay a service that searches for this crap and submits requests on my behalf to have them take it down. I think California’s law where you can also ask once to be removed from all of them will go into effect soon?
Ah, ok. It’s still very concerning that anyone bases identity-verification on very publicly available data.