Protecting User Privacy by Removing Personal Data from Data Broker Sites

As part of its new subscription service model, Mozilla Firefox is offering its users the possibility of finding and removing their personal and sensitive information from data brokers across the internet. This new subscription model is known as Mozilla Monitor Plus and will allow users to locate and remove their sensitive information. 

To eliminate their phone numbers, e-mail, home addresses, and other information that is usually sold to data broker platforms for profit, the company offers a new subscription model called Mozilla Monitor-Plus. This is particularly interesting since Mozilla already offers a free service of privacy monitoring called Firefox Monitor which was previously known as Mozilla Monitor – which is now being revamped to strengthen privacy for users.

Previously, Mozilla Monitor was a free service that sent users notifications when their email accounts had been compromised. The new version is now called Monitor-Plus, and it is a subscription-based service. Approximately 10 million current Mozilla Monitor users will now have the opportunity to run scans to see if their personal information has been hacked by using the subscription-based service. 

Whenever a breach is detected, Monitor Plus provides the tools to make sure that a user’s information remains private again if a breach is detected. Data broker websites have a convoluted and confusing process that individuals have to deal with

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