World Privacy Forum's Top Ten Opt Outs

I ran across this at Sean Witty's site and new I just had to post it here.

Top Ten Opt Outs:

1. National Do Not Call Registry

2. Prescreened offers of credit and insurance

3. DMA opt outs (The DMA is the largest U.S. association of marketers)

4. Financial institution opt outs (If you opt out, you limit the extent to which a financial institution can provide your personal financial information to non-affiliates.)

5. CAN SPAM (The federal CAN-SPAM Act requires that a commercial emailer give each email recipient an opt out method.)

6. Credit freeze

7. FERPA (The FERPA opt out stops schools from releasing student directory information (Name, home address, date of birth, and other information) without consent, with some limitations.)

8. Data broker opt outs (Some commercial data brokers allow some categories of consumers to opt out of some limited uses and disclosures of personal information.)

9. Internet portal opt outs

10. NAI opt out (The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) offers a centralized opt out system that allows Internet users to avoid some types of tracking of their web activities)

If you hate getting spam via email or by phone go check some of these out.