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Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data.
The service is priced at $8.99 per month and is an extension of the free dark web monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (previously Firefox Monitor).
Basic Monitor members receive a free scan and one-time removal sweep, while Plus members get continual monthly data broker scans and removal attempts.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (25 children)

How can they know it's your data without first collecting your data to compare it?

"Give us your personal information so we can ask others to delete your personal information" just doesn't sound like a trustworthy offer.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (12 children)

I can also see the irony. But I can't imagine another way to do it at any scale. Do you know of another option?

[+] [email protected] -8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Something akin to haveibeenpwned.com password hash partial match? Can that even be done with this data?

Edit: You goofs know you can calculate the hash locally and submit it for review without actually exposing your password to them right? That's how bitwarden does it's check. https://www.troyhunt.com/ive-just-launched-pwned-passwords-version-2/#cloudflareprivacyandkanonymity

Ah, but Mozilla isn't even trying to do anything cool like that. They just use onereap and those fuckers look shady. Quotes from their privacy policy: https://onerep.com/privacy-policy#what-data-we-collect-and-how-we-do-that

We use your Personal Information for a number of purposes, which may include the following:

[snip]

To display advertisements to you.

To manage our Affiliate marketing program.

There will be times when we may need to disclose your Personal Information to third parties. We may disclose your Personal Information to:

[snip]

Third-party service providers and partners who assist us in the provision of the Services and Website, for example, (a) those who support delivery of or provide certain features in connection with the Services and Website (e.g. Stripe, a payment services provider; Sendgrid, an email delivery service; HubSpot, a CRM platform, and Sentry, a crash reporting platform); (b) providers of analytics and measurement services (e.g. Google Analytics, ProfitWell etc.); (c) providers of technical infrastructure services (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon AWS); (d) providers of customer support services (e.g. Zendesk); (e) those who facilitate conduct of surveys (e.g. Hotjar); (f) those who help to advertise, market or promote our Services and Website (e.g. Mautic, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, Linkedin Ads, Reddit Ads, and Microsoft Ads);

The bastards

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

No, because you are asking the data broker to do something with your data that they possess. It is not possible for them to delete your data without knowing which are your data.

The only alternative is fully banning this kind of data collection. Which would be nice, but isn't happening anytime soon.

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