Controversy over Mozilla’s anti-data broker service
Dr. Martin Shelton
March 20, 2024
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We recently shared news of Mozilla’s partnership with data removal service Onerep. Through a service it calls Mozilla Monitor Plus, Onerep is designed to automatically scan for personal information on data broker websites — services that aggregate and sell data about private individuals, such as addresses, phone numbers, names of family members, and even purchase histories. But journalist Brian Krebs has found evidence that the founder of Onerep, purveyor of anti-data broker services, himself created dozens of data broker services. Read more.
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Martin