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Comment by lookingforsome | Hacker News Reader

Wait this is huge for privacy rights. I can't wait to try this out, if this works I am sharing with all my fellow privacy nerds. How does it work?

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Thank you looking! It works! Just go to the Github from the landing page. It is a locally hosted app for now as we want to ensure your privacy so that none of your PII is sent to us. Once you go to Github follow this instructions on running it on your machine, and then it's three easy steps from there:

1. Fill in the required data fields on 1 form. 2. Data deletion requests are sent from your email. 3. Any replies/next steps are sent to your inbox.

Heyyo - this is my capstone project for grad school. You can see a demo video here: https://youtu.be/B24EYAAXpAE

And also visit our FAQ on the landing page

basically its a locally run flask app + react UI that uses python logic + the gmail api to craft CCPA data deletes from your own email to a big ole' data broker list we made (~500+ services). If you have more questions I can drop our email and feel free to reach out :)

Thank you! Looking forward to trying this out! Any plans on creating a web app for non technical people that don't know how to use Github?

yeah we want to do an installer so that all the install stuff will be way easier- it will basically be a desktop app. In terms of webapp - no because we don't want to ever risk processing (even temporarily) user PII.

Awesome, just downloaded the local version and it sent out all of delete requests successfully! I am still getting emails from all of the data brokers haha.

it's so crazy to see someone I don't know using this lol. glad it worked for you , make sure you remove the permissions from gmail!

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