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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by dylan604 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:12AM (#39275026)
This is always my pessimistic view of the world we live in today. Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc? The only "proof" you have is if you send a request to see the data they hold on you. If they send you an empty report because the ignore flag was set, you would only see an empty report. You have no evidence that the data was actually deleted.
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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by StopTheTechies on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:17PM (#39277191)
> Why in the world would they delete that data vs just putting it on mute/ignore/etc?

If you're serious it's because having a fig leaf is useful to reduce risk in controversial business practices, especially if the vast majority of people don't take advantage of it.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by wolverine876 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:05PM (#39276984)
I also wonder if it stops them from collecting it. Also, what are the legal requirements if a customer asks their data to be removed?

Still, I'm not giving up a plausible solution because potentially it's only a partial solution.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by myself248 on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:25PM (#39280056)
And I've never seen a single stalker-corp ("data broker") executive serve prison time for failing to delete data that they claimed was deleted.

Either that has literally never happened, or there's inadequate auditing/enforcement, and I don't consider the former to be plausible.

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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by PascLeRasc on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:56PM (#39280466)
That's because this is actually a data validation service for brokers. Most of their data is junk or incomplete, but now they know which pieces belong to actual people who want to pay money for it to be deleted.
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Re:Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal ... by rdgddffd on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:24PM (#39282308)
I get your point but also this is what whistleblower laws are for. A lot of times it’s in the company’s best interest to comply… until 50%+ of the population opts out
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