Services like Incogni target data brokers, ours targets the first-party account content.

When you provide information to a platform, they are the first party. The first party shares data with a second party middleman, and that middleman monetizes it by sales to third parties.

Back in "the day", this was typically just your email address so companies could email you ads. Nowadays however, this data includes your messages, usage data, and more.

Our service redacts your data from the platform itself, at the source, rather than blowing the doors off of our SMTP servers asking companies to "play nice and delete it".

Services like DeleteMe target data brokers, ours targets the first-party account content.

When you provide information to a platform, they are the first party. The first party shares data with a second party middleman, and that middleman monetizes it by sales to third parties.

Back in "the day", this was typically just your email address so companies could email you ads. Nowadays however, this data includes your messages, usage data, and more.

Our service redacts your data from the platform itself, at the source, rather than blowing the doors off of our SMTP servers asking companies to "play nice and delete it".

For our client to be able to delete your data en-masse, it needs to be able to authorize as you to perform the deletions, enforcing the same Privacy Policy rules per-platform as if you yourself deleted the content. As far as the platform itself is concerned, you're going thru Spring Cleaning.

While you might think this is invasive, the alternative options aren't grand either. Competing services require anything from a password, to a persistent account connection, to a Power of Attorney - yes, a whole entire legal document to make bits and bytes go bye-bye.

We ask for a password because combined with modern security offerings thru the platforms we support deletions on, it's the safest way to do this type of business. Once your deletion is complete, you should change your password as a part of the data deletion cycle to protect against intrusion. Not only this, but most services make it incredibly simple to "de-authorize" our deletion client if you'd like to halt the process. More control is placed in your hands, thru means that we cannot control, so that you have an unbiased form of access control.

A "Power of Attorney" (POA) is a legal document that grants authority to one person (known as the "agent" or "attorney-in-fact") to act on behalf of another person (known as the "principal") in various legal and financial matters. The principal confers this authority voluntarily and may do so for a specific purpose or for a broader range of decisions.

There are different types of Power of Attorney:

1. General Power of Attorney: This type of POA grants broad powers to the agent, allowing them to make a wide range of financial and legal decisions on behalf of the principal. It is commonly used when the principal is absent, incapacitated, or unable to handle their affairs due to other reasons.

2. Limited or Special Power of Attorney: In contrast to a general POA, a limited or special POA grants the agent specific powers for a particular purpose or a defined period. For example, the principal might give an agent the authority to sell a property on their behalf while they are out of the country.

3. Durable Power of Attorney: A durable POA remains valid even if the principal becomes incapacitated or mentally incompetent. This characteristic is essential for ensuring that someone can continue to manage the principal's affairs if they are unable to do so themselves.

4. Springing Power of Attorney: This type of POA becomes effective only under specific circumstances defined by the principal. Often, it takes effect upon the incapacitation or disability of the principal.

The powers granted through a Power of Attorney can include managing finances, making legal decisions, handling real estate transactions, dealing with government benefits, and making healthcare decisions, among others. It is essential to draft a Power of Attorney carefully, defining the scope of authority and any limitations to avoid potential misuse or misunderstanding, and only to agree to a Power of Attorney you fully mentally comprehend and consent to.

You shouldn't have to all but "Brittany Spears" yourself to delete your data. That's the entire response. Tweet about it.

No

When we perform deletions, our client only collects completely user-irrelevant statistics.

We only collect at the "root" statistic level - messages deleted in total, tweets deleted in total, emails deleted in total. This is to power the statistics at the bottom of the page, which are the totality of what we collect.

We never collect or store any of the following:

• Photos
• Videos
• Message Content
• Email Content
• Account Information
• Credentials
• Files
  

Doing so could open us to an inane amount of liability. If you don't want it anymore,  we don't either.

No

The whole premise of data deletion requests is respect and honesty, fact-checked with legalities.

There are certain circumstances and technicalities in which a company cannot process a data removal, because it was not allowed to have the data in the first place, and acknowledging a deletion also acknowledges the collection and possession.

In a world orchestrated by corporate risk management, attempting to process a data deletion request will bring up information about you up-to and including your name, date of birth, and other characteristics that could be used to verify whether at any time you'd violated Terms of Service or Access. For example, a Discord you created the week before you turned 13, is still a violation. If you tried to ask for them to delete your data, they would terminate your account instead, and you'd lose your friends, servers, and account applications. If they don't terminate your account, one could argue it as a precedent. So, they will.

Our client runs as if it's you, so, there's no requests or paperwork involved, and we don't provide information or alerts to platforms when we remove a user's data. Truly, it's redacted.