Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, Instant Checkmate, etc?

Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by samstave on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:28PM (#13805791)

What about letting a user enter all their pertinent details, then having a "NUKE ME" button and it would eval how many sites and places to nuke from, and you base your costs to the user based on the effort to nuke the info you find. Then give a very straightforward list to the user and let them select which site/item they want to nuke and provide an upfront cost to them.

* You're found on sites 1, 2, 3

* Nuking site 1 is $10.00

* 2 is $1.50

* 3 is $22.55

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Or something like that?

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by Dotnaught on Monday March 06, 2017 @07:09PM (#13807279)

Offering a reward that rises in proportion to the number of sites with your personal information might just provide an incentive to create more such sites.

The more you'd pay for privacy, the more it would be worth to violate it.

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Re:Ask HN: Who really gives your personal info to Intelius, ... by samstave on Monday March 06, 2017 @08:44PM (#13807691)

Game theory on your comment, sure... but I was just referring to "price per record/line item" -- how to separate these???

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