Appendix O: Companies and Associations That Can Help to Remove Your Name from Mailing and Telephone Lists

Alabama’s Do Not Call List
(pg 551)

Arizona’s Telemarketing Abuse Information
(pg 551)

Arkansas’ Do Not Call List
(pg 551)

Canada’s Do Not Mail Service
(pg 552)

Consumer.net
site 1
(pg 552)
and
site 2
(pg 552)

DMA’s E-mail Preference Service
(pg 552)

DMA’s Mail Preference Service
(pg 552)

DMA’s Telephone Preference Service
(pg 552)

EcoFuture
(pg 552)

Equifax
(pg 552)

Experian
(pg 552)

Federal Trade Commission
(pg 552)

Georgia’s No-Call List
(pg 552)

Germany’s Do Not Mail List
(pg 552)

Idaho’s Attorney General’s No Call List
(pg 552)

Junkbusters
(pg 552)

Kentucky’s No More Calls Please
(pg 552)

Metromail Corp.
(pg 552)

New York’s Do Not Call List
(pg 553)

Oregon No Call List
(pg 553)

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
(pg 553)

Private Citizen, Inc.
(pg 553)

Tennessee Solicitor Do Not Call Program
(pg 553)

Trans Union Marketing List Opt-Out
(pg 553; 8/31/02)

U.K. Do Not Mail List
(pg 553)

Appendix N: Other Database Vendors

There are hundreds of online database vendors. The following list represents only a small sampling of these vendors. It is my intention to include the major vendors who offer a broad base of databases, as well as the vendors whose databases I have found to be most helpful researching information on individuals (in addition to those listed in Appendices L and M).

ABC voor Handel en Industrie C.V
(pg 543)

AccuWeather, Inc.
(pg 543)

American Chemical Society (ACS)
(pg 543)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
(pg 543)

BASELINE, INC.
(pg 544)

Bell & Howell Information and Learning
(pg 544)

Bureau van Dijk, SA (BvD)/Electronic Publishing
(pg 544)

Burrelle’s Information Services
(pg 544)

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
(pg 544)

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
(pg 544)

The Canadian Press
(pg 544)

CDA/Investnet
(pg 544)

ChemWeb, Inc.
(pg 544)

Chollian
(pg 544)

Claritas Data Services
(pg 545)

Congressional Quarterly
(pg 545)

DataStar
(pg 545)

Det Kongelige Bibliotek
(pg 545)

Dialog
(pg 545)

DIMDI (Deutsches Institut fuer Medizinische Dokumentation und Information)
(pg 545)

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
(pg 545)

DRI-WEFA
(pg 545)

Dun & Bradstreet Canada
(pg 545)

Dun & Bradstreet Business Credit Services
(pg 545)

Dun & Bradstreet France S.A.
(pg 545)

EBSCOhost and EBSCO Publishing
(pg 545)

European Information Network Services
(pg 545)

Factiva
(pg 546)

Federal News Service
(pg 546)

FIZ Technik (Fachinformationszentrum Technik e.V.)
(pg 546)

Gale Group
(pg 546)

GE Information Services (GEIS)
(pg 546)

GENIOS Wirschaftsdatenbanken
(pg 546)

Gesellschaft fur Betriebswirtschaftliche Information mbH (GBI)
site 1
(pg 546)
or
site 2
(pg 546)

Global Access/Primark Corporation
(pg 546)

H.W. Wilson Company/WilsonWeb
(pg 546)

Haver Analytics
(pg 546)

HITEL
(pg 546)

Infomart Dialog
(pg 546)

Information for Public Affairs, Inc. (IPA)/StateNet
(pg 547)

INFOTRADE N.V.
(pg 547)

Jane’s Information Group
(pg 547)

K.G. Saur Verlag GmbH & Co
(pg 547)

Ministerio de Educacion, Deporte Cultura y (ESPANA)
(pg 547)

National Adoption Center (NAC)
(pg 547)

NewsBank, Inc.
(pg 547)

NewsEdge Corporation
(pg 548)

OCLC- EPIC- Firstsearch Catalog- Firstsearch Electronic Collections Online
(pg 548)

Organization of American States, General Secretariat
(pg 548)

Ovid Technologies, Inc.
(pg 548)

Profound Inc./The Dialog Corporation
(pg 548)

Questel Orbit
(pg 548)

Research Bank Webor Thomson Financial Services, Inc.
(pg 548)

Reuters Information Services, Inc.
(pg 548)

SilverPlatter Information, Inc.
(pg 548)

Simmons Market Research Bureau, Inc. (SMRB)
(pg 548)

The Sports Network
(pg 548)

Standard & Poor’s Compustat
(pg 548)

STN International
(pg 548; 8/31/02)

Telerate Systems Inc.
(pg 549)

Thomson Financial Investment Banking and Capital Markets Group
(pg 549)

U.S. Federal Election Commission
(pg 549)

Unitel
(pg 549)

University of Oslo Library
(pg 549)

The WEFA Group
(pg 549)

Appendix M: Public Records Producers and Vendors

Although there are many other companies that offer online public records, tenant and employee screening, and related services, the following list is an attempt to identify only those companies that are producers of proprietary databases of this type.

Accufax
(pg 539)

Accu-Source, Inc.
(pg 539)

Acxiom Corporation
(pg 539)

Agency Records/Rapid Information Services
(pg 539)

American Insurance Services Group
(pg 539)

Ameridex Information Systems
(pg 539)

AmeriFindor DCS Information Systemsor Dallas Computer Services Inc.
(pg 539)

Aristotle Industries
(pg 539)

Atlantic Magellan Corporation
(pg 539; no longer maintains a website as of 8/31/02)

AutoTrackXP
(pg 539)

Avert, Inc.
(pg 540)

Background Information Services, Inc.
(pg 540)

Carfax, Inc.
(pg 540)

ChoicePoint Online
(pg 540)

Commercial Information Systems, Inc.
(pg 540)

Confi-chek
(pg 540)

CT Corporation System
(pg 540)

DAC Services
(pg 540)

DBT Online Inc.or Database Technologies, Inc.
(pg 540)

DataQuick Information Systems, Inc.
(pg 540)

Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.
(pg 540)

Environmental Data Resources Inc.
(pg 540)

Experian
(pg 540)

Explore Information Services
(pg 540)

Fidelifacts Metropolitan Inc.
(pg 540)

General Information Services (GIS)
(pg 540)

Hogan Information Services
(pg 540)

Hollingsworth Information Services, Inc.
(pg 541)

The Info*Center Inc.
(pg 541)

Information America (IA)
(pg 541)

Informus Corporation
(pg 541)

Insurance Information Exchange
(pg 541)

LexisNexis
(pg 541)

Lloyd’s Maritime Information Services
(pg 541)

Merlin Information Services
(pg 541)

MIB Group, Inc.
(pg 541)

Motznik Computer Services Inc.
(pg 541)

National Credit Information (NCI) Network
(pg 541)

New Mexico Technet Inc.
(pg 541)

Nexis
(pg 541)

Ohio Professional Electronic Network (OPEN)
(pg 541)

PACER Service Center
(pg 541)

Plat System Services Inc.
(pg 541)

Property Data Center Inc.
(pg 541)

Public Data Corporation
(pg 541)

Rental Research Servicesor Employment Research Services
(pg 541)

The Screening Network
(pg 542)

Search Network Ltd.
(pg 542)

Statens Vegvesen (SVV)
(pg 542)

Superior Information Services, LLC
(pg 542)

TransUnion Employment Screening Services, Inc.
(pg 542)

Verifacts, Inc.
(pg 542)

West Group/WESTLAW
(pg 542)

Appendix L: Major Bulletin Board Vendors

America Online, Inc.
(pg 537)

CompuServe Information Services
(pg 537)

Delphi Internet Services Corporation
(pg 537)

GE Information Services (GEIS)

The InternetThe Internet: Owned by no one, Internet service is provided by thousands of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). For a list of ISPs, see The List
(pg 537)

Prodigy Services Company
(pg 537)