AdsWizz, Inc.
Declined: said data subject rights apply only to residents of certain states.
“Your request cannot be processed because data subject rights apply only to certain residents.”
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Know your state privacy rights, and tell your lawmakers what you think
Data broker and people-search sites publish home addresses, phone numbers and relatives' names. Your rights to make them stop depend on where you live. This page helps you look up those rights, see which brokers register with the states, write to your own elected officials in your own words, and report a broker that ignores you.
Georgia: no comprehensive consumer privacy law
Georgia has no comprehensive consumer privacy law, so no state law gives Georgians a right to make a data broker delete their information. Many brokers honor deletion requests only from residents of states that require it, and some refuse Georgians in writing.
Georgia's 2025 privacy bill, SB 111, became law in 2026 in name only, after lawmakers swapped its privacy text for a hospital tax-credit change.
Sources: signed SB 111 text (Office of the Governor) · Privacy Daily, Mar 26, 2026
What Georgians can still do today:
- Ask any broker for voluntary removal. Many brokers still honor requests they don't have to.
- Dispute inaccurate information with background check companies that act as consumer reporting agencies. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act covers them in every state. See complaints below.
- Write to your state senator and representative. The letter tool starts with Georgia.
State privacy rights lookup
Pick a state to see the main rights its consumer privacy law gives you, the response deadline, and who enforces it. This list covers a handful of states; more states have passed similar laws, so check your attorney general's website if you don't see yours.
General education, not legal advice. Laws change; confirm details with your state attorney general. Last reviewed Oct 17, 2026.
Write to your lawmakers, in your own words
Start from a short draft, then change anything you like. When you press the email button, your own email app opens with the letter filled in. You add your lawmaker's address and decide whether to send it. We never send messages for you.
State data broker registries (2025)
Interactive compliance tracker compiled by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), monitoring broker registrations across California, Texas, Oregon, and Vermont.
Source: California CPPA, Oregon DFR, Vermont SOS, Texas SOS registries via Privacy Rights Clearinghouse & EFF (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Shown here for free, non-commercial education. Open the dashboard on Tableau Public
Report a broker that ignores or refuses you
If a broker misses a deadline your state's law sets, refuses without a reason, or keeps publishing information you disputed, you can tell the regulators. Fill in the facts below, copy the text, and paste it into the official form.
FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
Report data brokers with unfair or deceptive practices, such as opt-out pages that don't work or promises they don't keep.
Official FTC form →CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
Report background check and consumer reporting companies under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, for example when they won't fix inaccurate information.
Official CFPB form →Your state attorney general
Your attorney general enforces your state's consumer laws. Georgia residents can use the Consumer Protection Division.
Georgia Consumer Protection →Keep copies of your request, the date you sent it, and every reply. Agencies decide for themselves what to act on.
Companies that refused deletion requests in writing
When we ran Privacy Dawg on our founder’s own profile, these 6 companies answered his deletion requests in writing and declined, citing where he lives. Each entry shows the company, the date of its written refusal, the reason it gave in plain words, and a short quote from the reply.
We list a company only when its written reply plainly declines to delete or opt out the requester and nothing since has reversed that: no later deletion confirmation, no honored or partly honored request, no “we hold no record of you” reply, and no fresh search showing the listing gone.
The buttons fill in the complaint helper or the letter tool on this page with the company’s name, refusal date and stated reason. The FTC and CFPB buttons also copy the text so you can paste it into the agency’s own official form. Nothing gets filed or sent for you, and you should report only what happened to you.
Komodo Health, Inc.
Declined: not accepting privacy requests from residents of states without an applicable privacy law.
“…we are not currently accepting consumer privacy requests from individuals that reside in U.S. states and territories that do not have an applicable law or regulation.”
Enformion LLC
Declined: no state consumer privacy law in the requester’s state provides rights for this request. The company upheld that decision on appeal on Oct 9, 2026, and declined a new request on Oct 15, 2026.
“…we determined that there are currently no state consumer privacy laws in effect in your state of residence that provide applicable rights for this type of request.”
R.L. Polk & Company (Mobility Global)
Declined: requester not a resident of a state with a privacy law (Georgia has none in place).
“Unfortunately, we are rejecting your submission because Georgia does not, yet, have privacy regulations in place.”
Cox Automotive, Inc.
Declined: honors privacy requests only from residents of states whose law provides those rights, and named Georgia as not among them. The company sent the same answer again on Oct 5, 2026.
“Georgia is not among those states today, and accordingly Cox Automotive is not required to - and does not currently - honor privacy rights requests from Georgia residents.”
Fusable (Randall-Reilly, LLC)
Declined: requester not a resident of a state that requires this action. The company sent the same answer again on Oct 14, 2026.
“This request is rejected because you are not a resident of a state that currently has a requirement for this action.”
Why removal takes more than one request
Brokers keep collecting
Many brokers rebuild profiles from public records and other sources, so a listing removed today can come back later. Search for yourself again every few months.
Some ask for more than they need
Some brokers ask for an ID scan or a utility bill before they act. Share only what your request needs, and note any demand that goes further.
Where you live matters
When we ran Privacy Dawg on our founder's own profile, 6 companies refused in writing, citing his state of residence, with nothing since reversing that (as of Oct 17, 2026). See the full list. Two of their answers:
"This request is rejected because you are not a resident of a state that currently has a requirement for this action."Fusable / Randall-Reilly, LLC, Oct 7, 2026
"Georgia is not among those states today, and accordingly Cox Automotive is not required to - and does not currently - honor privacy rights requests from Georgia residents."Cox Automotive, Inc., Sep 25, 2026
How Privacy Dawg labels each outcome
- Request sent
- We asked the broker to delete the listing. Nothing more yet.
- Confirmed by the broker
- The broker says it deleted the listing. We record its words but treat them as its claim, not proof.
- Proven removed
- A fresh search of the broker's site no longer finds the listing.
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