PSA: Unfortunately, we no longer recommend #Optery as a data removal service, following their decision today to not only implement #OpenAI, but to do so for a feature that is not at all essential to their core service.
The fact that they see no issue with sharing the personal information you pay them to delete from the internet with one of the largest data scrapers in recent history indicates a critical lapse in judgement.
Full announcement and more info: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/removal-psa-optery-now-sends-data-to-openai/20995
Removal PSA: Optery now sends data to OpenAI
We are removing Optery as a recommended data removal service today, because of their addition today of AI functionality powered by OpenAI. This AI feature is not used for the purposes of removing your data from the internet, it is only used to generate the reports of their service that are delivered to you. We do not believe this functionality that is not core to the services offered by Optery warrants sending your personal information to OpenAI, arguably the largest data scraping and collecti...
