I'd love it if there was a national "Do Not SMS" list. (Especially during this US election season).
Though I'd assume companies like Twilio would massively lobby against it.
Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
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Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#32I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well
They only remove your information every 3 months. If I'm paying $129/year I want the removals to be submitted daily.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was is the point of 'hacking' it? The list should be public right? So every telemarketer can access it and not call you? Or is it done via your telecom provider?
It should be accessible to telemarketers, obviously, but that's not the public...
Well, if any telemarketer can access it, it is public.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
What was is the point of 'hacking' it? The list should be public right? So every telemarketer can access it and not call you? Or is it done via your telecom provider?
It should be accessible to telemarketers, obviously, but that's not the public...
So it was leaked, not hacked, right?
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
technically you could try putting RETURN TO SENDER on all your junk mail and put them back in a blue collection box. https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...
It's crossed my mind before to start a service that collects junk mail and sends it to the home address of the executives at the junk mail aggregates (there's only a handful of them last I tried to stop receiving junk). On the one hand it's definitely harassment to find out someone's address just to send them things they don't want for the purposes of changing their behavior. On the other hand, that's their business…
brilliant
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#36Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
Might be able to help out with CCPA analogue. Not sure how to email you though. Site goes directly to login page.
mistergeorgespencer+HN@gmail.com Thank you!
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#37It is not a service but a github page with helpful content which I recently came across. This has list of databrokers and their links to opt-out.
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#38I use https://joindeleteme.com/ and it seems to work well
They only remove your information every 3 months. If I'm paying $129/year I want the removals to be submitted daily.
I think that the value here is for people that want the bulk of what’s out there to be removed from the start. The 3 month follow ups are like maintenance
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's the HN post we wrote to help scope the project before we started: Summary: you know those irritating “prospecting” databases which sell your email address to people who want to send you spam? (Hunter.io is a good example.) We built a tool, in partnership with our friends at a great law firm, which will unsubscribe you from more than 50 of them with a single click. Background: my inbox is besieged by cold email…
Are you in the US? I'm asking this in a non-snarky/good faith way- if you're in the US, and the company is in the US, why would they honor a GPDR request? I understand the EU may have worded GPDR broadly, but sovereignty is still a thing- just because Europe says the law applies globally doesn't mean it really does. I don't mean this as a criticism- I've been manually deleting myself off of data broker sites for a wh…
No snark detected! Good question.
I split my time between the US and UK. One of the interesting things about GDPR has been that a lot of non-EU information controllers appear to have adopted it as their de facto DSAR / right to be forgotten standard, so for many of these "services" GDPR works irrespective of territory (or the GDPR standard), and nearly all others have a simple format for deletion.
The thing which GDPR turbocharges is that you can submit a DSAR or deletion request to _any active email address_ and it must be actioned. So you don't actually have to use the obnoxious forms they try to force you through.
Re: Ask HN: Best service to remove you from data brokers?
#40Dang this is ahead of schedule, but here we are anyway. We are working on something for this at KBYE.io. (It's in beta testing.) Screen grab here: https://ibb.co/TgKS6dR Email me if you want to help out. We think there are some neat solutions enabled by GDPR. (And thanks to Basecamp for permission to slightly denigrate the HEY logo :)
I know your site is in beta, but you should remove the 'See what our customers say' section until you have customer reviews. https://i.ibb.co/zS1zNq6/Screenshot-2020-10-20-Remove-Person...
Don't think that's us! KBYE.io currently asks for credentials and doesn't display anything.