BlockShopper

I contacted blockshopper.com requesting them to suppress my information from their company's public search results for privacy reasons. Reputable companies providing similar services honor such requests, but I received a reply from Scarlett Simpson (*******@blockshopper.com) denying my request. Based on other reviews here, it appears that blockshopper.com in fact is not a reputable company.

This website aggregates real estate property transactions with your social media profiles. If you google search your name, you may find your personal, private address listed as a search result.

They are jeopardizing people's safety by aggregating real estate property transaction records, and then making maps and directions to where you live. Thousands of people nationwide have requested removal only to be rudely refused or ignored. They repeatedly prioritize revenue above the safety of human beings.

Being a homeowner should not mean your personal information, privacy, and safety should be compromised just so the website owners can make a profit. Contact your local legislators to ban the website and/or protect your private information!

They do not respect the Consumer Protection Rights of any state when you request to opt-out and have your personal information removed from their website and databanks. This is a violation of state laws. They should be prosecuted for ignoring such consumer rights and closed down for such non-compliance. Their phone number *******880 is merely a message to contact Scarlett Simpson at *******@blockshopper.com to lodge a complaint. I did just that and she replied that they do not remove such data unless a court order demands it. What kind of BS is that? I urge everyone to contact their respective State Attorney General to investigate and fine this company for this behavior. Also contact Federal agency... https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/

Inaccurate as well as unethical, this website gives out personal addresses and names of people with disregard to safety or requests to remove. How valuable can this site actually be? You can go to city records for tax information, however they actually mask the names because the are much more reputable and responsible. I can't imaging what kind of people run this website. I also notice that the $ information they present isn't correct. All of these sites, if they are going to continue to make a sad living off this, need to provide for an opt out, and most do. However this one asks for court documentation of a stalker or that you are law enforcement. Really? Who would actually start a site and think this is a good business model? Seriously STAY AWAY AND LET THIS TRASH DIE!

I reached out to Scarlett Simpson (*******@blockshopper.com) asking to please remove my personal information from the blockshopper.com site that they had obtained by scrubbing public records. After a few weeks I finally received a response that they would not remove my personal information without a copy of the police report or restraining order and after they have reviewed these documents. Absolutely horrible abuse of public information.

Blockshopper.com collects and publishes private info for a profit. They refuse to remove private info even if it's a security threat. This borders on criminal behavior. They do not respect anyone's privacy.

Blockshopper is supposedly about providing people with useful information when researching real estate. But reader be warned: You cannot trust this site. On the Washington DC site for Blockshopper, they show my condo building as having a 50% foreclosure rate. Would you buy in a building like that? Of course not. But the fact is, in the six years this building has been here, there has been only ONE foreclosure.

I sent an email to their QA department, only to have it bounce back as a bad address. I sent it to another, bounced again. I sent it to another, who I believe is their marketing manager, and no answer. I sent it to another person, no answer. Yet the bogus information remains. THEY DO NOT CARE.

So, I'm writing to their advertisers and promising them that I will not use their services. That's about all I can do, except warn readers here about what an unreliable website this is run by people who clearly do not care about providing accurate information.

Blockshopper.com invades peoples privacy, has no "opt out" if you don't want your personal information promoted to top of the google search. By doing so they put familys at risk. Also, if you google Scarlett Simpson, who is the contact person for this company, you will see loud and clear that she is a rip off artist. Do not do business with this site, and do not trust the information they present; at least in our case the information is wrong so that leads me to believe that their system must be wrought with errors. Read the reviews blockshooper.com and scarlett simpson are invovled in unethical bussiness practices and should be removed by google.

As a retired member of the Law Enforcement community, I am thankful for companies like people search, etc. who go out of their way to remove information that may lead to tracking of public servants. They error on the side of caution and strongly support the people who protect our local communities, putting the lifes of those who protect over making a dollar.

This however is not the case for an out of State company blockshopper.com, that collects data from local California cities and resales and displays information about where people have or may lived.

Rather that support local law enforcement and government workers, blockshopper.com would rather use loop holes in the legal language and put our local Law Enforcement and public officials in harms way by publicly displaying names and addresses of past and current public servants. There response when requesting the information to be removed is, this appears to be sold properties, send up your current address. REALLY?

I have recently written the Attorney Generals office and asked for their assistance which this problem. Its a shame that companies like this refuse to support those who are protecting your community. I would ask that everyone BOYCOTT blockshopper.com whether you are a business, individual or advertiser.

This company is truly horrific.
I keep to myself and keep my internet impact very low. There are very few results that return when you Google my name. Until Blockshopper. I was so happy to buy my very first home last year. However, Blockshopper decide to rain on that parade by taking my full name and posting it along with my full private home address on the internet.
Now, if a stranger or person with malicious intent decides to Google my name, they get my full address on a nice easy to find platter!
I have obviously emailed Scarlett and implored her to simply change my last name to my last initial so I could have SOME security in my home. Blockshopper claims that wanting to feel safe in your own home isn't a good enough reason to have your last name shortened on the website.
I even explained to her that my mentally ill mother (who has threatened to harm me and my property on multiple occasions) has recently Googled me and found out where I live. Wonderful! I have been HIDING from her for years, and now she knows exactly where I live - all thanks to Blockshopper.
This company does not care at ALL about the general population's safety and well-being. They refuse to do something that would take away nothing from the purpose of their site (change my last name to my initial, I told them I don't care if the price I paid is up, etc). They would rather maintain that their site is "legit" than be decent and show some concern for another human being.

This company does not remove your personal and private information easily when asked and I have witnessed this personally. There are very many new privacy laws being created, such as the Illinois BIPA law which recently shut down some Clearview AI services nationwide as recently as this week, even though the law was created for only one state. These same new types of laws will eventually be able to get BlockShopper to comply with Opt Out requests, so keep monitoring them. In the meantime, stay away from BlockShopper and contact BBB, ACLU, etc. and let them know about your complaints. Also voice your concerns on other review sites such as this one.

https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/big-win-settlement-ensures-clearview-ai-complies-groundbreaking-illinois-biometric