First off Census, and other Statistics Canada data is a lot harder to pin to a person in Canada then it is in the US. Just saying.

I used some data broker removal tool, I wanna say incognit, several years ago. Althoug; in Canada, it is only Ontario that there are laws saying stuff about data removal and Saskatchewan’s human rights commision is a joke I found they did a good job at removing enough for me to be comfortable.

Or so I thought, I got to a point where I just broke and started sending emails to companies asking to be taken off their lists. After getting a few replies saying that I am not on their lists, and they are unsure as to why I received emails I decided to ditch that gmail account. It was still important that I be able to receive stuff from it for a while so I set up an auto-reply and an Apple’s hide my email address to forward stuff to. In 2025 it took me a few months to figure things out but when I moved my domain to a .ca address I also got an unlimited email address package and moved everything to a new email address. I get next to no spam phone calls or text messages, if I get spam emails I decide if that address is important or not and then either contact the company about it being leaked or more likely just close the address.

As for my home address I stuck a sticker in my mailbox asking for no junk mail, so the only junk I get is addressed to me (once every few months) which I then create a gmail address to say so and so either, no longer lives here or is dead.

This still does not stop data brokers from knowing stuff about me, it just makes it considerably harder for them to connect me. To decrease the value of my eyeballs even further I have a pihole setup on my LAN which blocks a lot of the trackers and a lot of the ads.

Further to all this I stopped paying for a lot of US services which sell my data, like what I have watched or listened to and started sailing the high C’s again.