[Liquix]

"Just fill out this form with the very information you're trying to take down and submit it to our servers! It's not like we run a quasi-legal service based around monetizing this exact type of data!"

What reason is there to trust that the more shady brokers aren't just updating your record with IP address + 'sent an opt-out request' flag, making the data even more valuable?

[dpkirchner]

I remember Twitter asking me to send them my photo ID to remove a tweet with my personal details (someone doxxed me). It's not like it wasn't obviously doxxing.

I won't miss Twitter one bit.

[Raed667]

This! Plus some forms require an ID and I'm not trusting those people with that kind of documents

[ryanwhitney]

Which is extra annoying, because they shouldn't, but it's somewhat vague.

CCPA says: "Businesses also should not require you to verify your identity, though they can ask you basic questions to identify which personal information is associated with you."[0]

The worst is that some of the bigger services (intelius, who provides data for many of these sites) have begun to require opt-outs come from an email address that they already have on file for you. Really need to legislate these companies out of existence.

0: https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectionb

[poyu]

Seriously! Anyone figured out how to remove the records for cases like this? Specifically Intelius

[DistractionRect]

For those I usually just upload a picture generated by thispersondoesntexist, they don't actually check them. It's just friction to discourage users from completing the flow.

[gochi]

What reason is there to trust any provider when you don't have direct read access to their servers?

[oxygen_crisis]

A lot of them let you look up the info they already have on you.

I don't see the harm in pasting in the info I can see they already have, in a request to remove it.

[throwaway14356]

one could change small things and tie the name to the service. It doesn't help much if you aren't a researcher.