Response to the "happy" Jessica Mahoney of Massachusetts:

HI JESSICA! Sorry for the inconvenience and that you felt so upset that you had to respond that way and also make a formal complaint with sitejabber about my review. Again, your response is pathetic. To claim that your "removal" system isn't perfect is a stretch. I know you are paid on commission to troll any negative reviews of your Cyprus based company so already you have a lot of clout. The opt out process on your site is not supposed to work. Your site demands people make an account which will not let you complete the process of establishing the account without providing more information than the profile even lists in its blurred areas that are used to entice people to pay for the profile info. Once you make the profile it does not let give you the option to remove any information let alone delete the profile you wasted time making. I then contacted your pathetic customer service that you pretend to be helpful in all of your cookie-cutter responses. There, the customer service will criticize grammar, the name of my email address, the size of the circle around the profile information I want removed in my screenshot and any other cheap nonsensical excuses that you feel make sense in defending your position to not take down literally any information. Keep this going, Jessica. Keep responding telling me and everyone else to email customer service and that your company strives for perfection blah blah blah. I wonder why your company has just so many negative reviews and all of those reviews say the exact same thing about your worthless company's obvious unwillingness to remove profile information. Hmm, I wonder.

The "rep" from radaris is incorrect. She has copied and pasted the same cheap response for each opt out complaint. The opt out does NOT work. Radaris says you can opt out only if you make an account with them and provide even more personal information. Once you fall into their trap, they still do not remove anything and will claim there is a glitch with the site or simplistically say that it is public record and that they were never obligated to honor the removal in the first place. If you contact them by email, they will say there was an extra character in the url of the page you need removed, that if your email address does not have your full name in it that you are sinister in trying to help remove someone else's personal and often incorrect radaris profile, then they will claim the opt out had been attempted before for the same person. The truth is that they will never remove your information. Their employees from Cyprus are instructed to write poorly-worded emails and come up with any excuse to deny an opt-out request. The only way to fix the problem is to take legal action and launch a ddos attack on them. They like to hide behind fake names and protect their own privacy half way around the world but they don't lose a bit of sleep about publishing your cell phone number or a fabricated street address under your name. Jessica M- if you would like to reply to this, just looking out for your best interest. I would be careful if I were you. You wouldn't want to get doxxed and for me to put all the links to the various class action suits and DOJ investigations in my reply to your "response" about how easy it is to remove a profile by emailing radaris to get a rejection or to make a profile and give your perverted site more of my info when creating a profile still does not give an option to opt out. Like I said, careful what you say and better to not continue embarrassing yourself.

It's time to take action against these socially inept and dangerous companies. The only way to truly get rid of them is to make it so they lose money and go bankrupt. Below are some steps you can take to help run these fools out of business.

Actions:
1) Opt out of every site your information shows up in. Some sites have automatic opt out but for the sites that require you to verify your id, use a guerilla email and throw away text number. If they require the photo id bull$#*! take a screenshot of a complaint to the FTC and use that. Email them daily until they give up and remove your info.

2) Complain (often! And about every single one of them) to the FTC (you can do this anonymously): https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/Company#crnt

3) Write your rep/senator
A) Tell them to vote for The Data Broker Accountability and Transparency Act (or a new variation of this bill)
B) Send them this report: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/data-brokers-call-transparency-accountability-report-federal-trade-commission-may-2014/*******databrokerreport.pdf
Apparently most reps can't read so you might want to put in a short synopsis. (http://www.regblog.org/2014/06/19/19-slater-costs-and-benefits-of-data-brokers/)
This is harder to do anonymously however, in most cases you can use the office address and phone of the rep/senator. Go to their web site and copy it then use the link to complain. I personally find it fantastic that they then spam themselves.

4) Mess with the information. If you are signed up already, go to your profile and change things up so that the information is not valid (then have them hide it). If enough of this gets around companies will lose trust in information brokers and hopefully stop buying the lists.

5) Spread the word. If every single person opted out and complained, the web sites at least would go down since there would be nothing to publish even if the side business of selling info still keeps these creeps around.

Radaris needs to be put in their place. Looks like they pissed off a lot of people. Found this website exposing some information abut Radaris themselves. Worth a look. https://plus.google.com/**************647/about

AFTER MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS AND AN EXPLANATION THAT I HAVE BEEN RECEIVING DEATH THREATS, RADARIS STILL REFUSES TO REMOVE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM THEIR WEBSITE.

I HAVE SUBMITTED CORRECT INFORMATION ON TWO PREVIOUS ADDRESSES (OBVIOUSLY, I KNOW MY PREVIOUS ADDRESSES), PLUS MY CORRECT DOB AND THEY KEEP GIVING ME THE RUNAROUND, ALL THE WHILE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION IS STILL POSTED ON WEBSITE._________________________________________________________________________

TO ANYONE WHO IS CLAIMING THAT RADARIS HAS POSTED UNAUTHORIZED PICTURES OF YOU ANYWHERE ONLINE:

EMAIL A DMCA COMPLAINT TO THEIR ISP HOSTING COMPANY JUST LIKE THIS:

To the ISP Hosting Company:

I am the copyright owner of the photographs being infringed at:

***enter exact url of picture here***

Copies of the photographs band videos being infringed are in
This letter is official notification under the provisions of Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to effect removal of the above-reported infringements. I request that you immediately issue a cancellation message as specified in RFC 1036 for the specified postings and prevent the infringer, who is identified by its web address, from posting the infringing photographs to your servers in the future. Please be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to expeditiously remove or disable access to the infringing photographs upon receiving this notice. Noncompliance may result in a loss of immunity for liability under the DMCA.
I have a good faith believe that use of the material in the manner complained of here is not authorized by me, the copyright holder, or the law. The information provided here is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I swear under penalty of perjury that I am the copyright holder.
Please send me at the address noted below a prompt response indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter.
Sincerely,
***enter your name here***

***enter your email address here***__________________________________________________________________________

After SIX emails, they responded with this:

Hello,

We have assigned the Profile to your user account. Please log in to your account, navigate to Information control, My pages, and then select "Hide". This will make your Profile private from being visible to users. Please do not select "Delete", as this will remove the Profile from your account, not the site.

Best regards,
Radaris customer service_______________________________________________________________________

I was able to login to my member account, and following the instructions, 'hide' my profile.

Hope this helps everyone who is frustrated and having problems with this site.

The same thing happened to me--I removed my info last year and it has shown up again.

I sent an email to *******@radaris.com and included the 2 URLs where my info was appearing. A little later I received a reply--I think it was an automated message--that gave step by step instructions on how to remove my info. This was the same set of instructions found at http://radaris.com/help in "Information Removal, Can I remove my information from this site?"

One of the steps involved Information Control. Since my info had already been removed, this option was not available.

I replied to the email explaining this. A few hours later I received a reply. The info on one of the URLs had been removed. However, the info on the other URL was not. This is the explanation I received:

"The phone book look up we cannot remove, we have received this from a public source. It is important to contact your provider."

This did not make sense. I replied that if the info on my individual page had been removed, why couldn't the info on this other page be removed? I have not received a response. The info on this page is still appearing.

Radaris controls what appears on its site. If it wants to remove something, it can. It should not hide behind nonsense.

This other URL is phones.radaris.com/XXXXXXXX where the Xs stand for an area code and the first 5 digits of a phone number. For example, phones.radaris.com/*******. You will be taken to many phone numbers that are similar to the phone number you are looking for. Not only does this section have phone numbers, it has names, addresses, some ages, and some occupational info.

I did a Reverse Phone lookup from the Radaris site, and because my info had been removed previously, the site did not return info for my phone number. I only know about the radaris.phones.com/XXXXXXXX subdomain because I came across it when I did a Google search for my own name.

Radaris does not seem to understand that removing information from Radaris means removing information from Radaris. It does not mean removing information from a webpage while still displaying the same information on another webpage or subdomain. Radaris is playing games and being deceitful.

Radaris does not seem to realize that although the information in its databases has been obtained from so-called "public" sources, this information, when readily available to anyone who has an Internet connection, makes people vulnerable to identity theft, stalking, age discrimination, and other abuses.

The upper right corner of the Radaris homepage says "Trusted Site" and "100% Ethical Site." This is not true.

Radaris needs to respect and honor someone's request to have his or her information COMPLETELY removed from the site.

I agree, this is not an ethical site.

They are horrible privacy violators.

Bad people.

I agree that www.radaris.com should be sued and regret that I have no legal background. Basically, this site sets up a trap, alluring the real person who matches a profile page at radaris.com into a futile removal effort, and by way of that successfully collects authentic personal information from the beguiled user.

I will provide a log of what happened after I saw my old residential addresses, phone numbers, etc. listed on radaris.com. If I was annoyed at first, I felt tricked and scandalized after I tried removing my personal information there. The blatant abuse of trust by the company was astounding.

I pulled up one of the pages that contain a mixture of personal information and photos from different people of the same nameincluding my own addresses, some outdated phone numbers possibly from old yellow/white pages, and photos. Naïvely, I clicked Removal and started checking off information relating to myself. Next, I clicked the button Remove selected records, only to be told that I can remove 3 pieces of information at a time. Shameless trickery started from here. After I complied by selecting only three pieces, the next page asked for name, email, reason, code (cleverly to prevent a robot operation), and consent to its Removal terms:

I confirm that information I am requesting to be removed is my personal information. This transaction is subject to review and approval by Customer service representative.

All were required fields. Through this request for removal process you are confirming your authentic personal information with Radaris. Radaris then sends the following message to your email inbox and requires action:

Dear Customer,

Your Information Removal request is subject to approval by administrator.
You will be notified by email. It may take up to 48 hours. Thank you for your patience.
Please confirm your request by clicking the link:

Again, by naïvely clicking on the confirmation link, I further assured Radaris that I was a human and strengthened the association between the personal information I checked (for removal) and my email address.

My confirmation generated this sly, noncommittal response displayed at radaris.com/removal/confirm_request:
Your Removal request has been confirmed.
Your Information Removal request is subject to approval by administrator.
You will be notified by email. It may take up to 48 hours.
Thank you for your patience.

Fourteen hours later, I received a Radaris information removal approved email. The text says:

Dear customer,
Your Information Removal request is approved by administrator.
Please Note! To see changes sometimes you need to refresh your browser. While on information page press F5 (or hold SHIFT and click RELOAD button in your browser).

I already knew I was tricked into authenticating my personal information with the site after I followed those removal steps, but it didnt make me less angry when I searched my name again and saw what was there. Now, all other peoples addresses disappeared from that page. Only the two very addresses and phone numbers I had picked to remove were displayed. It is worth pointing out that the company doesnt delete other peoples addresses though. When I clicked on Removal again, I could bring out those addresses not associated with me.

I would be interested to learn any legal actions taken against the company for invasion of privacy and trickery.