You'd be essentially funding this continued privacy invasion of individuals - even if this service is successful for yourself.
That's a lucrative product for a for-profit company to offer, but seems like a poor fit for the parent foundation's goals of creating a more privacy-respecting internet on a systemic level (rather than just for a few paying customers).
I’ve tried one rep, delete me and a few others. This service goes much wider to delete all public mentions and hidden ones in broker databases that are being sold. It has made a considerable difference for my data privacy IMO.
It's fascinating that I have to pay to get my data removed from datasets into which they got without my consent (well, my consent "is not worth much" IMHO) and somebody else gets paid to put my data into this dataset.
So I need to pay to get something I never wanted in the first place.
Makes me wish there was a service dedicated to providing the information of the people who run these services for free. The more details that can be used by marketing folks to profile and contact them, the better.
This is par for the course for Americans and credit reporting agencies. It's disgusting how they use your data without consent, don't protect it, then charge you to 'lock' your credit. I love unfettered capitalism.
Glad to hear it. All we do at Kanary is focus on exposure clean up. We've spent 4+ years refining how we find and match information to show accurate results vs a bunch of mismatched / irrelevant alerts.
We run a free trial & free version too so that it can be accessible for folks who want to run this type of clean up, have the time to DIY, and don't want to pay.
I have a friend that once worked in a tech role within The Political Establishment. He had a file on his computer with personal information about me on it, aggregated from data brokers.
FWIW they use haveibeenpwned.com to find the breaches when you enter the e-mail. So you could just go to https://haveibeenpwned.com to check if you are affected by any breaches.
Darn, I looks like someone stole my identity and threw in the $8.99/m to DeleteMe!
...Now I have to start all over training the ad targeting I carefully built over all those years.
But seriously, wouldn't it make more sense if this service were free for everyone except those that opted in? (For example, by not sending the DNT header in all requests?)
>For example, by not sending the DNT header in all requests?
DNT is all but dead; it never got past the draft specification phase - even though being adopted by the major players in the browser realm. (Most have already removed the feature.)
GPC[1] is supposed to be the new DNT but I doubt it will have as much success.
Not sure, but I think a German court(?) recently ruled it's a legitimate way for a user to express intent that should be honoured by website.
Technically there isn't a reason to look for other means, the reason is mostly that advertisers would rather not have visitors choose this option. The reason DNT was almost instantly rejected, for example, was that the compromise text mentioned the user enable DNT, but then some browsers enabled it by default. Advertisers: Hurray! We found a reason to ignore user preferences!
So, for all I care it might be DNT, GPC or a plug-in that auto-clicks REJECT COOKIE. It's the default I would expect. It would be great the web simply would not offer ad targeting unless I explicitly enabled some tracking beacon because I sincerely like targeted ads better than old-school billboard.
> So, for all I care it might be DNT, GPC or a plug-in that auto-clicks REJECT COOKIE.
Regarding the plugin/extension option, there's one developed by Aarhus University in Denmark called Consent-O-Matic[0] — it moves the cookie dialog to a corner (or hides it, if you prefer) and either the options to the minimum on the majority of sites (I've only experienced it not working once in the two years I've used it) and plays nice with the other "privacy" extensions I've got installed (CanvasBlocker, Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, LocalCDN, etc.)
Maybe some EU country would like to step in and offer this as a basic service to all their citizens? (I'm sure Mozilla would be happy to give a discount.)
Well, that's the same thing they did with the "Topics" thing in Chrome -- “we can track you and figure out what you like and send that information to other websites, but they can't do that directly. You are safe in our hands. Don't you see that's better?“
I just looked through the perks on my Google One and don't see this offering. I don't see it in the premium perks either. Do you happen to have a link? Is it some kind of hidden benefit?
A few of my personal details were found on "dark web" according to Google. Well, they can't really talk to those people and say don't leak my password.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274631 (blog.mozilla.org)
Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
(posted 22 hours ago, 260+ points, 189+ comments)