Reddit comment:
>> Employee of Acxiom here. The Direct Marketing Association (the-dma.org) is the legitimate trade group of direct marketing companies. If you opt out at the-dma.org, it will be accepted by almost all legitimate datamining companies. DO NOT USE THE ONLINE SERVICES THAT SAY THEY WILL OPT OUT OF EVERYTHING FOR YOU! These "services" send an opt out on your behalf that will be ignored by all the major marketers/dataminers because they only accept opt-outs from individual consumers. The "services" that send opt-outs en masse will collect your info to spam you later. As far as I know, the DMA is the only external organization that Acxiom will honor an opt-out from.
It's not very clear on the "the-dma.org" site how you actually request them to remove you, and it takes you via 2 other sites to get there, but the url for consumers is:
Has anyone actually used this successfully? How long does it take to take effect? The site looks like it is supposed to remove you from junk mail lists, not background check sites/public records sites.
I went through the same sort of experience researching the viability of a service that will stop phone book deliveries to your address. There is an official site, here:
