The Call You Did Not Ask For The FTC received 1.8 million Do Not Call complaints in fiscal year 2023. The actual volume of unwanted calls is far higher — most people hang up without filing a complaint. Robocalls peaked in 2019 at an estimated 58 billion calls in the U.S. alone, and while enforcement has driven that …

Your Inbox Is Not Broken — It Is Being Harvested Spam accounts for roughly 45% of all email traffic globally, according to Statista's 2024 data. That volume is not random noise — your address is on lists. It got there through form submissions, shopping accounts, data broker sales, and in some cases outright scraping of …

Your Data Is Being Sold Right Now Data brokers are companies that collect, aggregate, and sell personal information — your name, address, phone number, email, relatives, estimated income, purchase history, and more — without your direct knowledge or consent. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit that has …

Why You Are Receiving So Much Unwanted Communication Unwanted mail, calls, and email are not random — they are the output of a multi-billion-dollar data ecosystem that buys, sells, and rents your contact information without your knowledge. According to the Federal Trade Commission, data brokers collect information from …