What DeleteMe and Incogni aren't telling you

▬▬ Support the Channel ▬▬ Get early access to videos and a supporters-only discord community (and more!) for only $1/month! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RejectConvenience YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/@rejectconvenience/join ▬▬ Socials ▬▬ BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/rejectconvenience.com Reject Convenience Forum: https://rejectconvenience.com/forum/ Forum post: https://rejectconvenience.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=235 Blog post: https://www.rejectconvenience.blog/blog/blog/data-deletion-services-video/ ▬▬ Resources ▬▬ Delete the data yourself (for free!): https://inteltechniques.com/workbook.html Open source alternative (also free!): https://remover.visiblelabs.org/ What states have privacy laws: https://www.preiskel.com/opt-out-provisions-in-us-state-privacy-laws-what-when-and-how/ Find your Local Representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative ▬▬ References ▬▬ What states have privacy laws?: https://pro.bloomberglaw.com/insights/privacy/state-privacy-legislation-tracker/#map-of-state-privacy-laws Data broker registration (TX): https://texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com/data-broker-registry Data broker registration (CA): https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers What kinds of data brokers are there?: https://www.tomkemp.ai/blog/2022/10/05/a-look-at-the-different-types-of-data-brokers How much is your data worth?: https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/what-are-data-brokers-and-what-is-your-data-worth-infographic/ How data brokers get your info: https://www.security.org/data-removal/data-broker/#how-they-get-info Personal Health Data Brokers: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/your-mental-health-data-is-being-sold-and-its-legal#The-Bottom-Line Statistics on Data Brokers: https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/vpn/data-broker-statistics-and-trends/ Office Depot Privacy Policy: https://www.officedepot.com/l/help/privacy-statement General Motors Privacy Policy: https://www.gm.com/privacy-statement Eight Sleep Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/379226/full-legal PayPal Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full Amazon Privacy Policy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GX7NJQ4ZB8MHFRNJ Unacast: https://www.unacast.com/privacy-policy Unacast Consumer Data Enrichment (Under "Data in Action"): https://www.unacast.com/products/consumer-data-enrichment Venntel: https://www.venntel.com/privacy-ccpa-optout-stats Whitepages: https://www.whitepages.com/privacy Incogni Broker List: https://blog.incogni.com/data-brokers-incogni-covers/ DeleteMe Broker List: https://joindeleteme.com/sites-we-remove-from/ Optery Broker List: https://www.optery.com/data-brokers/ Onerep Broker List: https://onerep.com/sites-we-remove-from Mozilla Monitor does not list what brokers they work with: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-monitor-faq?redirectslug=firefox-monitor-faq&redirectlocale=en-US#w_from-which-sites-does-mozilla-monitor-remove-my-personal-information Recent Data Breaches: https://privacyrights.org/data-breaches Facebook Data Breach (ft. Mark!): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/533-million-facebook-users-phone-numbers-leaked-on-hacker-forum/ Scams Cost A Lot: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/29/americans-lost-billions-of-dollars-to-phone-scams-over-the-past-year.html Spotify Cookie Vendor List: https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/cookies-vendor-list/ Gmail has a privacy problem: https://cybernews.com/privacy/no-gmail-isnt-private-at-all-but-you-can-fix-that/ ▬▬ Video References ▬▬ What if you can't reject convenience: https://youtu.be/yGlXEcLPyyI Cookies video: https://youtu.be/EHkSJ8N3JnI VPN sponsors video: https://youtu.be/mIwfNw5UaHA Data breaches video: https://youtu.be/ek7awOTm5vk ▬▬ Credit and Special Thanks ▬▬ Thanks to @Luchland for popping in for this video! Thanks to Yeebus from @YouAreMachines for voicing Spider-Man Thanks to Felicia for making the tube man! Thanks to Kai for the Incogni screenshots! Audio production by [lý] – https://lyismusic.dk/ – https://www.instagram.com/ly_is_music ▬▬ Timestamps ▬▬ 00:00 Chapter I: Why Comply? 01:44 Chapter II: What is a data broker? 04:14 Chapter III: Personal Health Data Brokers 07:33 Chapter IV: Risk Mitigation Data Brokers 09:01 Chapter V: Financial Information Data Brokers 10:53 Chapter VI: Marketing Data Brokers 16:03 Chapter VII: The Risks of Inferred Data 17:53 Chapter VIII: People Search Services 20:00 Chapter IX: Data Deletion Services 25:42 Chapter X: The Real Controversy 27:19 Chapter XI: What you can do 31:33 Bonus: The best ending ever #deleteme #incogni #rejectconvenience