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Last Edited by Phaenon December 21, 2019 at 07:36 PM
Call 1-866-217-4736 from a registered phone and limit Citi selling your information to third parties!
This applies to all Citi cards including cards like Costco issued by Citi.
Remember to ask for a written confirmation in the automated system at the end.
If you don't understand why this is important read the NYT article or below:
https://www.theverge.co
There are massive data aggregation companies like Factual and Roam. They pay money to apps to give people your location history and build your profile.
They then buy information from financial institutions to tie it to the places you visited
Then they buy information and match up financial transaction time stamps to anonymized store purchase data (from like free rewards cards) to figure out what you bought.
They also then collect public information about you on age, and other demographics
Then they sell all of this as a package to anyone who will pay for it.
update: for those of you who asked about Chase, you must call: 1-888-868-8618. It requires more information than the Citi system when asked if you are a resident of CA, just say yes and limit additional sharing!
Amex: 1- 855-297-7748
This applies to all Citi cards including cards like Costco issued by Citi.
Remember to ask for a written confirmation in the automated system at the end.
If you don't understand why this is important read the NYT article or below:
https://www.theverge.co
There are massive data aggregation companies like Factual and Roam. They pay money to apps to give people your location history and build your profile.
They then buy information from financial institutions to tie it to the places you visited
Then they buy information and match up financial transaction time stamps to anonymized store purchase data (from like free rewards cards) to figure out what you bought.
They also then collect public information about you on age, and other demographics
Then they sell all of this as a package to anyone who will pay for it.
update: for those of you who asked about Chase, you must call: 1-888-868-8618. It requires more information than the Citi system when asked if you are a resident of CA, just say yes and limit additional sharing!
Amex: 1- 855-297-7748
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I thought they will send the check in Jan/Feb for the citi visa card or am I wrong?
Edit: Also it's not free any more via internet order.
Yeah and just wait until AI kicks in...then all these companies credit cards or not may know your every move
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A better question is how did you get a slick deals "pro" rating with 70 reps and I only have "learner " with 102 reps? Shouldn't I be pro by now? Just curious how the sd ratings work. Thanks 😎
Yes, they may send it around that time frame, but my dumb mind was on permanent vacation, thankfully, the rep check into it.
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Individuals may request to opt-out of having personal information about themselves made available through certain LexisNexis products and services, in accordance with legal requirements or if permitted by LexisNexis policy. Such requests are referred to as "Information Suppressions."
LexisNexis permits individuals to have certain personal information about themselves suppressed from LexisNexis public records that are available to the general public over the Internet.
Public and elected officials, including law enforcement officers, and private individuals who are facing a substantial risk of physical harm or who are victims of identity theft may request to have personal information about themselves suppressed from LexisNexis products and services available to subscribers of our restricted public records products.
These products are available to commercial and government entities that meet LexisNexis credentialing requirements and are used to detect and prevent fraud, enforce transactions, perform due diligence, and other critical business and government functions.
LexisNexis does not suppress personal information from databases used by law enforcement customers.
LexisNexis also does not suppress personal information from the following products and services: products containing information regulated by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (except as required by law); third party data available through real time gateways; news; and legal documents.
This policy only applies to personal information that is available through LexisNexis-owned databases. Please note that Information Suppressions applied to LexisNexis databases will not prevent other companies or public records agencies from collecting or disseminating personal information.
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For people that value privacy, they should opt out of all the data brokers they can. Some make it easy. Others not so much. Others you have to nag them endlessly until they do it just so you stop nagging them. I had to nag one for 2 years before they finally removed me from their database. Hopefully California has made that much easier. Thanks California!
Here are a couple of threads with lists of data brokers to opt out of. The threads are old but are still valid.
https://www.reddit.com/r/technolo...und_
https://www.reddit.com/r/technolo...und_
https://www.checkpeople
and
https://nuwber.com/removal/link
and
https://www.instantchec
and many more.
Just Google yourself and go thru a dozen or more Google search pages and you'll see those you're into. Try Bing too.
There should be opt-out links in most of these data sites.
Keep in mind that this is a never ending quest as more and more sites develop to do this.
As far as the:
www.optoutprescreen.com
is concerned you MAY NOT want to opt out if you're interested in special offers on receiving and collecting airline miles/reward points/etc. offers to build/add your accounts for free airplane trips/hotels/shopping/etc.
Sometimes these special offers are not subject to the various credit card limitations like you can not get a bonus after spending X.XX $ within 3 months IF you've applied or owned that card in the past 2 years, etc.
If you opt out you'll not get these offers.
For Lexis-Nexis the fastest way to get your all encompassing consumer report is to call the toll free #: 1-888-497-0011.
They'll register you and give you a consumer #.
Just make sure you request a hard paper copy of your all encompassing consumer report mailed to you.
You'll also get a letter with a PIN.
For Lexis-Nexis the fastest way to get your all encompassing consumer report is to call the toll free #: 1-888-497-011.
They'll register you and give you a consumer #.
Just make sure you request a hard paper copy of your all encompassing consumer report mailed to you.
You'll also get a letter with a PIN.
Never mind, found it.
1- 888-497-0011
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