Most "remove yourself from the internet" guides are written for Americans. They send you to people-search sites built on US voter rolls and property records, where many Canadians don't appear. These are the places Canadians do show up. Every one is free to opt out of.
Canada's main phone directory. It can show your name, number and address on one page.
Look in the help section of canada411.ca for the listing removal form.
A Canada-wide people directory. It is separate from the American Whitepages.
Use the remove-info page.
A caller-ID app. If anyone with your number in their contacts uses it, your name can show up when you phone a stranger.
Enter your number on the unlisting page. You can be re-added if someone uploads their contacts again, so check back.
Another caller-ID and contacts app that works the same way.
Fill in the unsubscribe form.
A Belgian directory company with a Canadian white-pages section.
On infobel.com/en/canada, use the contact option to ask for your data to be deleted, then click the confirmation email.
A marketing data company with a large Canadian consumer database, built in part from phone directories. You can't search it, but you can ask to be removed.
Use the privacy rights request form.
An Ontario customer-data company. Its consumer database is called ResponseCanada.
Email the privacy officer listed in its privacy policy and name the ResponseCanada database.
A long-running consumer survey whose answers feed a marketing database, now part of Epsilon.
Opt out through Epsilon's opt-out page and mention Shopper's Voice by name.
The federal registry. Telemarketers have 31 days to stop calling a number once it's registered.
Register every number you have at lnnte-dncl.gc.ca.
A registry run by the Canadian Marketing Association. One signup takes you off its members' mailing lists.
Sign up on the CMA consumer page. It takes about six weeks to take effect.
Unaddressed flyers stop with a note on your mailbox. No form needed.
Canada Post explains what the note covers on its Consumers' Choice page.
Use a spare email address for opt-out forms, so the company doesn't get your main one. Never give your SIN. And keep a note of the date you asked: Canadian privacy law gives a company 30 days to answer a written request, and if it doesn't, you can complain to the Privacy Commissioner for free.
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