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by analogj 1456 days ago
Yeah, data brokers are awful and their business model is an abuse of the ideals of the internet imo.

I’ve been working on a tool to automate GDPR & CCPA deletion requests to data brokers - basically it’s a database of ~650 registered data brokers + email templates written in legalese. After the user provides some basic contact information, it does a simple mail merge.

https://github.com/AnalogJ/justvanish

Still a WIP