Pay 3 bucks for a robot to send lawyer letters to more than 100 data brokers on your behalf

poisson

If you are in the USA, I say 3 bucks is worth it just for giggles at the havoc you are going to wreak.

https://fortune.com/2020/03/05/delete-location-data-privacy-personal-information-donotpay/

Ympker

Ouch.

InceptionHosting

WOW, that sounds amazong!!

This is needed in the UK, this is NEEDED in the UK!!!

Mr_Tom

Reminded me of this: https://shipyourenemiesgdpr.com/

vyas

Pay 36 dollars a year to help scrub data that I did not want to be collected in the first place.

MichaelCee

@vyas said:
Pay 36 dollars a year to help scrub data that I did not want to be collected in the first place.

Treat it like a lottery ticket and hope a settlement comes through the mail.

ilnahro

@Mr_Tom said:
Reminded me of this: https://shipyourenemiesgdpr.com/

Gotta love how that site portrays companies who abuse your privacy on a perpetual basis being damaged by GDPR as a bad thing. That was the whole fucking point of GDPR.

joepie91

@poisson said:
If you are in the USA, I say 3 bucks is worth it just for giggles at the havoc you are going to wreak.

https://fortune.com/2020/03/05/delete-location-data-privacy-personal-information-donotpay/

This is so typically US...

@Mr_Tom said:
Reminded me of this: https://shipyourenemiesgdpr.com/

@ilnahro said:

@Mr_Tom said:
Reminded me of this: https://shipyourenemiesgdpr.com/

Gotta love how that site portrays companies who abuse your privacy on a perpetual basis being damaged by GDPR as a bad thing. That was the whole fucking point of GDPR.

That site is complete bullshit, FYI. "They are legally required to respond to your request within 30 days" is nonsense when the request is obviously frivolous, which is certainly the case for a site that sends form letters for the explicit purpose of pestering companies.

It should come as no surprise that that site was built by a marketeer. You know, someone who works in the scummy industry that's most affected by the GDPR (adtech), and who has a vested interest in misrepresenting how the GDPR works, in the hopes of changing the public perception... after all, the GDPR is basically an existential threat to an industry that's built entirely on non-consensual collection and processing of data...

Edit: In addition, almost every other common claim that's going around about how the GDPR is so ~evil~ is 1) factually wrong and 2) originates from the marketing/adtech industry. Unfortunately, as you might expect from an industry whose business is literally manipulation, they've been fairly successful at introducing misconceptions about the legislation and pretending that actually they are the Good People...