Don't buy into anything advertised on YouTube. It's all shit
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.
I don't know what these services do, but ignoring a GDPR deletion request could be costly (if the company is caught)
Exactly the reason i decided to not use the services.
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
I wonder what scope 4 carbon calculations are like for ai.
I'd recommend trying Ollama+OpenCode to DIY removals. It can at least help find the sites and their removal request pages, but then you'd need to solve captchas and do the requests.
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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.
replacing bullshit with bullshit
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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