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by jimmySixDOF 986 days ago
I tried Optery (YC 22W) from an HN announcement and thought it would let me see data associations based on my email/handles from across the web and what data brokers are doing with it but the way the system, as in dealing with Data Brokers through some freedom of information as a service like Optery, works is like a yellow pages whois lookup based on your name/birthday/mailing address pairing which is completely ass backwards imo. I'm not interested in what details you have associated with my name I might share with 50 other people, I want to see everything connect to my online id's and if that includes my name phone numbers etc I want to exercise control over who has what and why. I still think it should be us, the consumers, who issue the Terms of Service to the users of our data not the other way around.