Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers

Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by nickthegreek on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:11AM (#39275008)

Mozilla Monitor Plus - $14/mo, or $108/yr. Too pricey for most.

>Every month, we use the information you provided about yourself (name, location and birthdate) to search across ⁨190⁩ data broker sites that sell people’s private information. If we find your data on any of these sites, we initiate the request for removal. Data removal can take anywhere from a day to a month. This feature is available for ⁨Monitor Plus⁩ users only.

Anyone know if there are any local/open source tools to do this?

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by WirelessGigabit on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:18AM (#39276138)

I have used Permission Slip by CR with limited success.

I use <website>@<personal-domain>.<tld>, and you cannot enter a wildcard in Permission Slip.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by devrand on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:28PM (#39277402)

I use this pattern but I'm starting to move away from it. Some things just don't work (ex. linking accounts between companies) and it also throws customer service agents into a panic when they see their own company name in the e-mail address.

I'm also not sure it gets me that much. I do get to see how was compromised or sold my data, but most of that just goes to spam anyway. I also usually find out about the compromises from other sources anyway.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by MyNameIs_Hacker on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:09PM (#39279842)

Sure some of the CSA's panic a bit, but I've never had one not go along especially after explaining my purpose. I've not seen too many compromises, but some of them were not public. Especially with small businesses like a car dealership, they may never know themselves.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by rdgddffd on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:56PM (#39282029)

Try just rot13 or hashing the website name.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by nickthegreek on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:16PM (#39279939)

Closest thing I can find to roll your own.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by kanary on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:38AM (#39298976)

Yael's resource is amazing. Highly recommend this open source guide. Also check out Michael Bazzell's how to disappear guides: https://inteltechniques.com/links.html

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by ds on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @09:31AM (#39288993)

We are working on a fully local version of this @ https://redact.dev - Beta should be out within a month or so. Huge (obvious) advantages for doing it locally

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