How can you stop a website from displaying personal information and where/how can you file a complaint against them?

ZabaSearch is simply aggregating information available on the web. What they are doing is not illegal, so getting them to stop is difficult. They are indexing 3rd-party data, so if you want your data removed, I would recommend going to the third party.

They aren’t even doing a good job, as I know that my numerous moving violations are a matter of public record and can be easily accessed online from a state agency. However, all that came up on a ZabaSearch of my name was my current address and a few old addresses. Nothing that can’t be purchased from a number of places. All ZabaSearch is doing is showing how little privacy we actually have. There are companies that simply troll around looking for the slightest information on you in the public domain and sell that info back to marketers. These guys are just using that info.

Let me make this clear: even if you are successful in opting out of the ZabaSearch database, it will not remove your data from the source that ZabaSearch got it from.

I should point out that home address and phone number are not protected by most state privacy laws, so the vast majority of complaints listed at the Consumer Affairs URL are simply unfounded.

There is also some info at http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/zabasearch.asp

My problem is with a person who has published false statements about me. It’s practically impossible to get rid of. I am lucky, because my son has the time and knowledge to contact the individual website owners and get the material removed. It is extremely time consuming, but he has mostly succeeded.

I’ve advised him to create a business of doing it for people for a fee, like his does his web creation service.