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Should I subscribe to a data removal service (DeleteMe, Incogni, etc.)? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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When the privacy laws in the US are so weak, it seems like maintaining the effect of data removal requires paying for the data removal service indefinitely. Is it worth it regardless? Are there any cases and criteria where one should pay for data removal, more so than the average person? Interested to hear if anyone here has seen noticeable benefits, beyond the mere fact that their PII have been scrubbed from data brokers and search sites.

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

i've been thinking of doing this because i think life gave me a warning sign in the form of a facebook account. lol

i forgot i had created it sometime in the mid aughts and hadn't used it since then; but upon a recent login, i got an reminder about an event i planned on attending.

i purchased those tickets using my proton email address and the venmo credit card (which was also registered to my proton account) and facebook knew that i was going to that event even though i hadn't used facebook in (literally) decades and i didn't know proton was a thing when i last used the facebook account.

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