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Have you used any services/tools to remove your presence from data brokers? If so, which? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I was watching a video yesterday which had a sponsor for deleteme which claims to go through data brokers to delete your info. I thought that might be a good idea, especially for those with radical politics. However it's fairly expensive (~200$) and also I mistrust sponsored links by default.

Have you used them? Have you used something else? What do you recommend people do to deal with the hundreds of data brokers which harvest your info? The point is not to disappear entirely, but pershaps to make it less easy for an employer, payment processor or whatever to blackllist you based on GenAI assessments etc.

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[โ€“] troed@fedia.io 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As a Swede these services always sound a bit weird. Here anyone can call the tax authority and ask for the equivalent of your social security number (thus it's not used as a secret identifier anywhere). Your home address is also public information, as is the amount of money you declare on your taxes and what cars you own.

We get by just fine. I guess the difference is that it's illegal for companies/employers to misuses that data for advertising and improper background checks - rather than putting it on the persons themselves to "go hide".

... but to your question: I think all those services are scams. If the information got out there once it will again, and the services themselves could very well just lie about the work they do for you. You have no way of actually verifying.

[โ€“] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Yes, but these services make a full profile of people, including their political orientation and hot takes, then get GenAI systems to make slop summaries. Then when suit uses a tool to say "give me information about ", it might spit out some shit like "this is a violent anarchist" or whatever, yanno?