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by troydavis 1868 days ago
Congrats! This is a neat idea.

Does it take into account whether or not a given data broker currently has my data? Since the deletion requests contain my personal info (for some, a fair amount of it), I'd rather not have that sent to 500 brokers if only 10 or 20 of them actually have me in their database.

(Obviously their privacy policies claim that info from data deletion requests will only be used for deletion. Even if none are malicious, out of 500, it seems like some will have bugs or just not care enough to maintain that separation. Facebook's misuse of 2FA phone numbers as ad targeting metadata comes to mind.)

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so in short no, but what you can do is only send bare minimum required (name + email +state) and then you can manually do any follow up if they require more. Hope this helps!
Also the UI allows for different "options" so to speak so there is our top choices, all data drokers, and the exhaustive list.

Our video (posted in other comment) talks about this a little more