I was contemplating whether to invest in services like Deleteme or Incogni to erase my data from data broker websites. But I’m curious if I could have AI develop a software that handles those opt-out requests for me. That would save me some money!
Some of these PII removal companies go to great lengths to request removals on your behalf without providing ANY additional information that the data broker does not already have.
The problem is that nobody can tell which PII removal companies act responsibly and which ones are merely data brokers themselves.
Even the ones trying their best to not distribute more information about you need only to screw that up once, and that single incident of human error leads to a neverending cycle of leaks between downstream data brokers.
It’s the perfect industry for local AI agents to replace, but the only way to know you’re properly requesting removals without making matters worse is to do it yourself.
Those services are bullshit, there is no reason whatsoever for the other side to cooperate. All you are doing is giving another company the data yourself.
Best case they lie and say they did remove it.
Why would you burn a small forest to do that? If you don’t want to pay a service and know how it has to be done (you would have to develop your agent), do it by hand
replacing bullshit with bullshit
