UPDATE: impressed with the volume of data floating about out there! Privacy Hawk has helped removed my data from over 100 sites! Thank you! I have also noticed a significant decrease in the amount of spam coming into my inbox. Yes, there is some effort involved, but Privacy Hawk will save you countless hours. While helpful in sending emails to companies, be ready for responses from those companies that may require you to go their website anyway to respond, opt out or fill out a form. Unfortunately, I think my email has been sold and is now circulating the masses. Too soon to tell how well this has worked.

I know it stinks that they hit you with a paywall after the initial scan, but I paid $10 for a month of this service, and it removed my stuff from all these scam sights I didn’t even know existed. I went and looked at a couple of these sights before and after I purged my info. I don’t know if this is worth a yearly subscription, but if the app shows you a bunch of malicious sights with your info, definitely pay the money for a month of this just to remove your information. I used to get scam calls and emails and texts galore and now I haven’t gotten one in a while.

So I tried this app. Did the scan. Put my name in. Put my age in. It comes back with X number of exposures. It gives a name, first name, middle initial, and last name. It gives an age. And it gives relatives attached to that name. So you can tell if that's really you or not. What came back on my scan was a whole bunch of people who aren't me. It doesn't allow you to delete those other people in the scan results. It doesn't ask for your middle initial in the scan parameters. It gives you 10 free up outs. And then anything over those 10, you have to pay for it. So of course if it's going to give me a bunch of accounts that isn't mine that I'm gonna go over that limit of 10 and so have to pay. The scan is rigged to force you to pay have your accounts removed.