It is a start, in the right direction.
It's somewhat in the right direction, but my suspicious mind asks:
Just how safe is it to send them a scan of your "government-issued ID" as required by "Intelius and subsidaries" for instance?
Wouldn't admitting that you exist by sending out your personal information in that manner actually be just as dangerous as being on the sites in the first place? After all, by sending your ID scan to get yourself removed, you just voluntarily put your "government-issued ID" into "the cloud," and we all know that the Internet is forever.
Anywho. I've got that question emailed to a security expert that I know.