We’ve recently learned that government agencies seem to be passing around links to Spokeo’s data aggregation website in the past few days. Spokeo is a web-based data aggregation company that collects a large amount of information about individuals across the Internet. The past few years have seen the growth of the “people search” industry, with companies appearing like Spokeo, Spock, Wink, Rapleaf, Intelius, etc.. The amount of information Spokeo and other companies like this find is interesting to some, surprising to others, and can even be alarming to some people.

Reputation.com was founded with the mission to help individuals have a choice and to enable individuals to remove themselves from such databases if they’d like to do so. Our relationship with the data aggregation companies is straightforward: we find and remove our customers from their databases!

In the case of Reputation.com, we are proud to be able to remove individuals not only from Spokeo’s database but from many others through our MyPrivacy product.

We are also very proud to offer a subscription to our MyPrivacy product free to law enforcement officers and judicial officers. We have done so for a long time, and a large number of officers have availed themselves of these benefits. To learn more about this free offer, please contact Reputation.com today at 877-720-6488.

We are hopeful that breaking news about the reach of “people search” data aggregation companies will help confirm to the public what we at Reputation.com have been saying for years: for better or worse, instantaneous access to deep information about individuals (meaning YOU!) is accelerating and proliferating through the advent of social media and search technologies. Reputation.com was founded with the belief that you should have a right to control what people can find about you. To our knowledge, our solution is the only one in the world that reaches into so many databases and removes your data, giving you the choice and control that you should have.

[Update: read why we do not provide data to people finder sites]