TowerData is now AtData
TowerData merged with FreshAddress in 2021 and rebranded as AtData, which Experian acquired in February 2026. The towerdata.com domain redirects to atdata.com, the California registration is filed under AtData, LLC, and any request about TowerData data goes through AtData's channels.
Broker profile
TowerData
- Redirects to AtData
The retired brand of the email-data company AtData. Tom Burke founded TowerData in 2001, and after the 2021 merger with FreshAddress the company rebranded, retiring this domain. Experian acquired AtData in February 2026. Today towerdata.com publishes nothing of its own - it 301-redirects to AtData, verified August 2026. Older opt-out lists still name TowerData, but no data-broker registration exists under that name, and the opt-out that works is AtData's.
TowerData overview
At a glance
- Data published
- Moderate
- Re-listing frequency
- One-time
- Complaint record
- No public record
- Opt-out friction
- Moderate
- Operator opacity
- Fully disclosed
- Prior data incidents
- None documented
Each broker is scored 1 to 4 across the six dimensions above; higher means more exposure, and the overall gauge is their average.
What each dimension means
- Data published: how much and how sensitive the personal data they put out.
- Re-listing frequency: how quickly you reappear after opting out.
- Complaint record: volume and pattern of complaints across BBB, Trustpilot, and Sitejabber; no findable review presence counts against the broker.
- Opt-out friction: how hard the removal process is to complete.
- Operator opacity: how hidden the operating company and its principals are.
- Prior data incidents: history of breaches or leaks of the data they hold.
- Category
Retired brand · redirect to AtData
- Domain today
301 redirect to atdata.com · verified Aug 2026
- Founded
2001 · as TowerData, by Tom Burke
- Current operator
AtData, LLC · Dedham, MA
- Acquired by
- CA registration
Filed as AtData, LLC · no TowerData entry
- Opt-out
AtData's InstantData form
- FCRA covered?
No
Background
Background
TowerData was a B2B email-intelligence company, not a consumer people-search site. It sold email validation, identity matching, and profile enrichment to marketers, and it never ran a public lookup product. The brand is gone now, but the data business it built is still running under a different name.
- TowerData founded
2001 · by Tom Burke
- Merged with FreshAddress
- Experian acquisition
- Registered entity
AtData, LLC
- Address
770 Legacy Place, 2nd Floor Dedham, MA 02026
- Legacy explainer
The company's own history page traces the line from TowerData's 2001 launch through its acquisitions of Rapleaf and Xverify, the 2021 FreshAddress merger, and the AtData rebrand. Experian announced its acquisition of AtData on February 23, 2026, and the release describes adding more than 10 billion email addresses to Experian's data assets after a 15-year partnership. Our AtData profile carries the full timeline with its sourcing.
What matters for a removal request is simpler. The towerdata.com domain returns a clean 301 to atdata.com with no content, no policy, and no opt-out flow of its own, and the current California data-broker registry lists the business under AtData, LLC with no TowerData entry at all. If a third-party opt-out list still tells you to contact TowerData, the request needs to go to AtData.
Why this page exists. Older removal guides and broker lists still carry the TowerData name, which sends people looking for an opt-out that no longer exists on its own. The path is AtData's, and it's linked below.
Contact
Contacts & links
- Operating entity
AtData, LLC · Experian subsidiary
- Address
AtData, Attn: Privacy Officer 770 Legacy Place, 2nd Floor Dedham, MA 02026
- Privacy email
- Registered privacy contact
- Privacy phone
- Opt-out form
- Deletion request
- Privacy policy
Key links
Two channels, two jobs. The InstantData form stops the sale and sharing of your data, while deletion runs through the separate rights form or privacy@atdata.com. If you want your record gone rather than just suppressed, use the second one.
Network
Sister brands
AtData absorbed the brands below, and the domains that still resolve mostly point back at atdata.com. Removals for all of them run through AtData's one opt-out.
FreshAddress redirects too. freshaddress.com 301s to atdata.com the same way towerdata.com does, verified August 2026. Rapleaf's domain no longer resolves at all.
Reputation
Trust signals
TowerData sold to businesses rather than consumers, so it never accumulated the review trail a people-search brand does. We found no listing for either name on the BBB, and the one review page that does exist carries nothing.
Litigation
Litigation history
We found no litigation, enforcement action, or breach disclosure attached to the TowerData name.
We have not found an FTC enforcement action, state Attorney General action, or class action against TowerData or AtData as of the last-updated date below, and neither name appears in the Have I Been Pwned breach index. Court-record and FTC search tools blocked automated access on the last check, so this rests on partial coverage rather than an exhaustive sweep. The AtData profile records the separate 2010 FTC matter involving Rapleaf, which predates TowerData's acquisition of that company.
FAQ
Q & A
Is TowerData still a data broker?
Not under that name. TowerData merged with FreshAddress in 2021 and rebranded as AtData, and the current California data-broker registry lists the business as AtData, LLC with no TowerData entry. The underlying email-data business is very much still operating, now as an Experian subsidiary.
Who owns TowerData now?
AtData, LLC, which Experian acquired in an acquisition announced February 23, 2026. AtData is headquartered at 770 Legacy Place in Dedham, Massachusetts, and Tom Burke, who founded TowerData in 2001, has led every iteration of the company.
How do I remove my information from TowerData?
Use AtData's opt-out at instantdata.atdata.com/optout, which covers the sale and sharing of your data. For actual deletion, use the rights form at atdata.com/ccpa-form or email privacy@atdata.com. Our AtData removal guide walks through both.
Does towerdata.com still work?
It resolves, but it doesn't serve anything. As of August 2026 the domain returns a 301 redirect to atdata.com, so anyone visiting it lands on the AtData homepage. There's no separate TowerData site, policy, or opt-out form behind it.
Is TowerData covered by FCRA?
No. AtData's terms state that it isn't a consumer reporting agency and that its services and reports aren't consumer reports, and they prohibit customers from using the data for credit, employment, tenancy, or licensing decisions.
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August 4, 2026