Personal tool

Deletion requests to data brokers, filed and followed up.

Privacy Vault is a small application its owner runs to exercise their own rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Delete Act: it sends deletion requests to data brokers and keeps track of what each one answers.

What it does

• Sends each data broker a written deletion request, from a dedicated reply address for that broker.
• Reads the replies sent to those addresses and records whether each broker confirmed, refused, or asked for something more.
• Keeps the correspondence as evidence of when each request was made and answered.

Why it uses Gmail

Requests go out from, and replies come back to, a Gmail account the owner controls. The application asks Google for two permissions on that account: to send the requests, and to read the replies. It only looks at mail addressed to the per-broker reply addresses it created; everything else in the mailbox is left alone.