Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data from all the data brokers

Re:Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data fr... by james_carney_ on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:37PM (#27147115)

Heyyo - this is my capstone project for grad school. You can see a demo video here: https://youtu.be/B24EYAAXpAE

And also visit our FAQ on the landing page

basically its a locally run flask app + react UI that uses python logic + the gmail api to craft CCPA data deletes from your own email to a big ole' data broker list we made (~500+ services). If you have more questions I can drop our email and feel free to reach out :)

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Re:Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data fr... by lookingforsome on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:49PM (#27147260)

Thank you! Looking forward to trying this out! Any plans on creating a web app for non technical people that don't know how to use Github?

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Re:Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data fr... by james_carney_ on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:51PM (#27147281)

yeah we want to do an installer so that all the install stuff will be way easier- it will basically be a desktop app. In terms of webapp - no because we don't want to ever risk processing (even temporarily) user PII.

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Re:Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data fr... by lookingforsome on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:02PM (#27148041)

Awesome, just downloaded the local version and it sent out all of delete requests successfully! I am still getting emails from all of the data brokers haha.

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Re:Show HN: PrivacyBot - A simple way to delete your data fr... by james_carney_ on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:52PM (#27158979)

it's so crazy to see someone I don't know using this lol. glad it worked for you , make sure you remove the permissions from gmail!

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