What DeleteMe and Incogni aren't telling you

Reject Convenience
Reject Convenience
Published on 1.05.2025

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Update: DeleteMe emailed me about the video: https://www.rejectconvenience.blog/blog/blog/deleteme-responded-to-my-video/
Update: Incogni also emailed me: https://www.rejectconvenience.blog/blog/blog/incognis-response/

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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
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!
Maddie // LykkeAudio - Audio Producer
– https://lykkeaudio.com
– 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

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