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...

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Update: While this doesn’t change our decision at this time, Optery has now emailed an apology to customers and changed this to an opt-in model.

A community member published a copy of the email on our forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/psa-optery-now-sends-your-data-to-openai-service-delisting/20995/15

PSA: Optery now sends your data to OpenAI [Service Delisting]

Optery has changed their approach. AI Processing Policy Update We’ve been carefully considering feedback following Thursday’s update regarding the use of AI processing technology for creating Removals Reports. We remain committed to extending our product leadership through industry-leading innovation, but in retrospect we should have released the new AI Processing feature as “opt in” rather than “opt out”. In our eagerness to provide the benefits of this new feature, we overlooked the fact that...

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@privacyguides yep, once this has been considered you cant trust a company from not doing it again anymore.

Good decision!

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:-( thanks for keeping up with the sad state and making us aware of it.