Unless you trust Mozilla. I’m unaware of another organization that is more trustworthy, despite the haters mad that CEOs make money.
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Rodeo@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
How can they know it’s your data without first collecting your data to compare it?
“Give us your personal data so we can ask others to delete your personal information” just doesn’t sound like a trustworthy offer.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Neato@ttrpg.network 4 months ago
Likely you must provide Mozilla with basic identifying data like name and birth date. Which isn’t all that radical since you’re giving them quite a bit more by paying them.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s better when it’s in their hands, because:
- It’s Mozilla - one of the more trusty organizations out there.
- They don’t get your information in some sneaky way from some source that was never supposed to be available to them.
- You know exactly how they make money from your data.
Defaced@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s ironic yeah, but if trust is the only way to implement something like this, then Mozilla is probably the one company I would trust considering they’re a non-profit org.
JustUseMint@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There isn’t a better company to do this than mozzila. I mean there literally are but in practice this is a good thing
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 months ago
The way I see it, if you’re asking for data removal, it’s because your identity is public online already, the company has nothing else to gain maybe other than the payment information and you can get a new card if they just happened to be untrustworthy.
Steve@communick.news 4 months ago
I can also see the irony. But I can’t imagine another way to do it at any scale. Do you know of any other way?
Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Something akin to haveibeenpwned.com password hash partial match? Can that even be done with this data?
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
No. If your name is Dave Jones they have to look around those broker sites for Dave Jones. If those sites were using hashes then they could use hashes too.
Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
They could just look for names, then hash those names and compare them to your hashed name. So technically that don’t need to store your data, just hashes.
Steve@communick.news 4 months ago
The front page there is literally: “Give us your email, so we can find leaks of your email.” It’s exactly the same thing.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
They are talking about the password lookup: haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
But, it’s the same deal. You have to trust they are actually doing what they say. Mozilla uses haveibeenpwned for their basic Monitor service too.
admiralteal@kbin.social 4 months ago
No, because you are asking the data broker to do something with your data that they possess. It is not possible for them to delete your data without knowing which are your data.
The only alternative is fully banning this kind of data collection. Which would be nice, but isn't happening anytime soon.