Due to the lack of legislation, the data broker market operates freely without any repercussions. Deleting your data from a website which publicly displays your private information is a nightmare and often unsuccessful.
On that note, a pro tip for anyone incorporating a company in India. Give a separate email id, phone number when you incorporate because as soon as its available on the MCA(Ministry of Corporate Affairs) database the brokers buy it for (~ INR 100/ ~1.37 USD) legally and put it out for sale to the spammers/scammers often displaying the email id publicly.
It will feel intuitive to give your personal phone, email in the forms when starting a company but you'll regret it. I'm waiting for the Data-Privacy legislation to be passed, so I can sue the X out of these brokers; Until then I'm creating an account with these brokers to delete my own details and if not possible then updating it with fake data.
On that note, a pro tip for anyone incorporating a company in India. Give a separate email id, phone number when you incorporate because as soon as its available on the MCA(Ministry of Corporate Affairs) database the brokers buy it for (~ INR 100/ ~1.37 USD) legally and put it out for sale to the spammers/scammers often displaying the email id publicly.
It will feel intuitive to give your personal phone, email in the forms when starting a company but you'll regret it. I'm waiting for the Data-Privacy legislation to be passed, so I can sue the X out of these brokers; Until then I'm creating an account with these brokers to delete my own details and if not possible then updating it with fake data.