Downing & Lahey Mortuaries & Crematory

Downing & Lahey Mortuaries & Crematory is a family-owned funeral home that has been serving the Wichita, Kansas area for over a century. It is not a data broker in the traditional sense, but rather provides funeral, cremation, and memorial services. The company's website features obituaries of deceased individuals, which are published with the consent of the family, and this is the extent of its "people search" functionality. While the primary business is funeral services, the online publication of obituaries does place personal information into the public domain. This information can include the deceased's name, age, date of death, and details about their life and family members. Although the risk is lower compared to typical data broker sites, this information could potentially be aggregated by malicious actors for purposes like genealogical identity theft or targeting grieving family members for scams. To protect one's privacy, it is wise to be mindful of the amount of personal information shared publicly online, even in contexts like obituaries, and to understand that this information can be requested to be removed.