Even for the “honest” data collectors I’m sceptical any of these services really work. Privacy and data protection laws are weak in many places, and even the countries that have enacted better legislation in this regard often have fairly toothless enforcement. Data is the new oil and is far too valuable for companies to want to part with. There seems little real incentive for companies to truthfully cooperate with these schemes.
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ares35@kbin.social 7 months ago
services like this rely upon the data harvesters and brokers to honor removal requests. honest ones would. but there's tons of them that aren't legit, so it's like using a straw to empty lake superior.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We need chain of custody data laws. If FB sells your data they’re responsible for keeping a chain of custody as to who they sold it to and requests for removal need to follow that chain down with regular audits and stiff fines for noncompliance.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly. I trust Mozilla, but I absolutely do not trust the broker sites to actually honor a request to remove data.