In what privacy advocates are hailing as a watershed moment in the battle against unchecked online data brokering, a New Jersey court has ordered the transfer of Radaris.com and more than a dozen associated people-search domains to a private data privacy firm. The unprecedented ruling comes after years of systematic evasion, procedural stonewalling, and shell […]
Court-Ordered Seizure of Radaris.com Exposes the Shifting Shell Games of the People-Search Industry
Introduction: The Fall of a Data Broker Empire For over a decade, the consumer data broker Radaris.com enjoyed a reputation for digital untouchability. Operating within the murky underworld of the online people-search industry, the platform routinely ignored individual requests to remove sensitive personal information, treating privacy opt-outs with administrative stonewalling. That invulnerability recently collapsed in […]