Get companies to erase your personal data – automated CCPA deletion requests

I&#x27;ve sent one request as a test, if it works I&#x27;ll do it systematically for all data brokers listed here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourdigitalrights.org&#x2F;data-brokers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;yourdigitalrights.org&#x2F;data-brokers</a><p>Since the devs are around this thread: it would be nice to have an option to send requests in bulk.

Wait, so if I know someone&#x27;s name and email address or username I can probably cause arbitrary companies to delete their account?

This looks great!<p>I wish it came with a little blurb on &#x2F;data-brokers as to what a Company does or how they typically use data.<p>I know I probably &#x27;want&#x27; e.g. Experian to have my data but I&#x27;d remove any company that is purely ads based for example.

FYI if you send an email to Acxiom you&#x27;ll get an automated response to <i>redo your submission through their web form</i> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr.eu.acxiom.com&#x2F;managePreference" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gdpr.eu.acxiom.com&#x2F;managePreference</a>.<p>This form is filled with dark patterns, including ones that are outright illegal, I believe. You cannot exclude your phone number under GDPR unless your country code is UK (+44).

Wow -- this seems like such a good thing. I can&#x27;t believe there hasn&#x27;t been a big push to have companies do this until now.

If I have a PO box in CA can I send CCPA requests for myself or do I need to actually be a resident?

I’m one of the founders of this service. We created Your Digital Rights because we believe that privacy matters, and that exercising your right to privacy should be easy. Over the past year thousands of people have used the service to send GDPR erasure requests. We’ve just launched support for the CCPA. I’d love to get your feedback and am happy to answer any questions.

Will hacker news take down accounts under CCPA?

But if I remove from credit bureaus I can&#x27;t churn credit cards ;)

Oracle is a data broker? I missed that somehow

Services like this are disgraceful. You encourage users to GDPR from services via your system, a third party, which then sends the request on. GDPR and data protection require that companies protect user data and so these requests cannot just be processed without verifying the user is who they say they are. Companies cannot communicate with you as you are a third party and so you&#x27;re just creating an unnecessary step in the chain and fostering the belief in users that using your service is all they have to do. The number of people who have given me abuse as a site administrator because upon receiving an email from you or your competitors, I&#x27;ve had to verify identity, is beyond a joke now!