Stalking
Stalkers — known and unknown — use the same broker sites you can search yourself on.
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Stalking is following, surveilling, contacting, or threatening a specific person over a sustained period. Most stalking starts from a known relationship — an ex, a former patient, a former defendant. Some stalking is anonymous, where the stalker has no prior relationship and the target doesn't know who's watching.
In both cases, the stalker needs to know where you live, where you work, where you spend time. They get this from the same places anyone else gets it: data brokers, social media, public records, and (for known stalkers) memory of when you used to live together.
Stalking laws are real but reactive — they activate after a pattern is documented. The data broker problem is upstream of that. The address is on Spokeo whether or not a stalker has started watching.
Why first responders catch this more
Officers, judges, prosecutors, victim advocates, CPS caseworkers, mental-health workers, and home-health nurses all encounter people who later become stalkers. The pattern follows the work: someone you handled in a professional capacity decides to find you in a personal one.
The job-specific risk for cops is more often retaliatory than the romantic-stalker pattern that hits civilians. The job-specific risk for victim advocates and CPS is often the perpetrator they were working against. The mechanics — broker page → address → physical presence — are the same.
What we sweep that prevents the chain
We file opt-outs across 200+ broker sites and re-check every two weeks. For known stalkers — exes, former patients with restraining orders — this is supplemental to the legal protections you already have. For anonymous stalkers, the broker cleanup is often the only upstream protection that works.
We sweep the family the same way. The brokers link you to relatives. A stalker who can't find you directly will sometimes find you through your sister.