Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web • Hacker News Board

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by slumberlust » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

chrisandchris wrote: post #21

chriscampbell wrote: post #20

I am a big fan of Kanary - https://www.kanary.com/ 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.

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.

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by imhoguy » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 1:40 PM UTC

pquki4 wrote: post #22

Siberium wrote: post #15

"Mozilla partners with a company called Onerep to perform these scans and subsequent takedown requests" Reputation companies have perverse incentives and often need to pay off offending privacy-invading sites - see https://thewalrus.ca/clean-online-reputation/ . 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…

Too bad I don't live in Europe, what can I do? (shrug)

Unfortunately, while living in EU/UK, you have no means to force US company to wipe your personal data unless it officially does business in Europe.

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 1:46 PM UTC

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Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by yoaviram » Wed, Feb 07, 2024, 4:59 PM UTC

jdmoreira wrote: post #13

I'm going to go against the trend here and put on my evil hat. How do I buy this data? Who are these brokers? And how do I buy it?

DataBrokersWatch.org

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by clankyclanker » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 2:32 AM UTC

clankyclanker wrote: post #37

herunan wrote: post #19

US-only. What if my EU data is found in US-based data brokers?

Then you file a complaint with your favorite reordenarías because somebody skirted the GDPR?

* Representative

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by kanary » Thu, Feb 08, 2024, 6:23 AM UTC

chriscampbell wrote: post #20

I am a big fan of Kanary - https://www.kanary.com/ 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.

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.

Re: Mozilla's new service tries to wipe your data off the web

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Post by shaan7 » Sun, Feb 18, 2024, 4:43 PM UTC

BrainBacon wrote: post #10

glauber wrote: post #6

Google offers something very similar for subscribers of Google One.

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?

It shows in your Google Account settings, takes me to https://one.google.com/dwr/dashboard