I understand the commerce of sharing data, but there is no lawful reason for someone’s name, dob, phone #, finances, relatives etc., should be available to anyone/everyone.
You’re missing the point: it is 100% lawful, and 100% publicly available. All MyLife did was aggregate the info from different sources.
I understand the commerce of sharing data, but there is no lawful reason for someone’s name, dob, phone #, finances, relatives etc., should be available to anyone/everyone.
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What laws exist against it?
What is the definition of commerce?
What the ultimate aggregator does with the information is their business, meaning it IS the nature of the business.
The public info is listed in the clear. Then they charge for credit reports, criminal records, legal records, etc.
There are sites that advertise a charge of $1 and then charge $20 when it hits your card, even if they are wrong. They will produce a death certificate with the name queried that then turns out to be incorrect, for example. Search people you know are deceased and often you will get hits that claim they are alive, giving the age they would be today if they were still living.
I believe there are services that will scrub your information from the net for a fee.