Chapman Funerals & Cremations

Chapman Funerals & Cremations is a family-owned funeral home business serving the Cape Cod and South Shore areas of Massachusetts. Their primary service is providing funeral, memorial, and cremation arrangements for families. As part of their services, their website hosts a public database of obituaries which can be searched by the name of the deceased. These obituaries often contain sensitive personal information, including full names, dates of birth and death, photographs, and details about the deceased's life and surviving family members. While not a traditional data broker, the public accessibility of this detailed personal information creates significant privacy risks. The data can be scraped and aggregated by other data brokers, creating permanent public records that are difficult to remove. This information can also be exploited by malicious actors for identity theft, inheritance scams targeting grieving relatives, or social engineering attacks. To mitigate these risks, individuals should be mindful of the amount of personal detail shared in public obituaries and can request that the funeral home limit the information displayed.