Also it seems like theres a service like this called Delete Me, but it also seems like theyre a manual opt-out shop. Would be cool if you could find a way to not have humans doing it. Bet they're just having people on amazon mechanical turk fill these out or something like that. https://joindeleteme.com/how-we-work/
It should be like a doctor’s prescription in a lot of places: as long as it’s on paper and has the right elements, it’s valid.
My only fear is that you're now sending this all to them, but in 2019, we can safely say your name+DOB+address isn't a secret. Or national identity number if that's a thing in your jurisdiction.
It's the metadata around it we want wiped out.
This exists but it's not cheap: https://www.abine.com/deleteme/
Blargh, let the data broker figure out if I’m in their DB or not.
Trying to determine that myself seems risky. Better to send the request to every broker in existence.
An online opt-out system is too easy for them. I want each one to get a phone-book sized list of opt-outs every month.
And the same for data requests. Someone that curates the data collectors, and sends them requests every month.
Do you know which country’s “do not call” list I want to be on? All of them! Get my number on the AU list, the UK list, the DE list...
Let’s crash the system.