Mozilla launches service to erase your personal information on the Internet

With Mozilla Monitor Plus, the publisher of the famous Firefox browser offers a new tool to remove Your personal information available from data brokers. The service is available as a subscription.

It’s not easy to keep your private life truly private on the web. Each time you visit a website, part of your personal information is collected and analyzed to offer you ever more targeted services and advertising. Data can also leak online during a hack or an unfortunate accident, with the risks we know in terms of identity theft or bank fraud. To analyze the available data more closely, and regain some confidentiality, Mozilla is today unveiling a new tool allowing you to regain control over your information, upon payment of a subscription.

A tool to monitor personal data brokers

Mozilla Monitor Plus is an extension of the free Firefox Monitor service. The latter is accessible free of charge and allows you to identify, by entering your email address, whether it has been compromised during a data leak. You will then know if it is time to change your password to avoid the theft of personal or banking data.

Mozilla Monitor Plus goes further by offering an analysis of different data brokers. These data brokers are companies specializing in the exchange and marketing of Internet users’ personal data.

The tool offered by the publisher allows you to search precisely for an email address, but not only that. It is also possible to provide a postal address or telephone number to submit it for analysis.

Additional protection, but at a cost

Mozilla Monitor Plus does not stop at simply recognizing your personal data. After indicating the different data brokers where your personal information was discovered, a button allows you to report it and authorize Mozilla to delete it from their servers. A dashboard also makes it possible to monitor which brokers have already removed personal data, and those for whom the work is still in progress. Subscribers will also receive real-time alerts if their data is leaked.

Mozilla, like the Incogni service that we tested in our columns, promises proactive protection in order to delete data on all data brokers monitored by its services throughout the subscription. The publisher now says it works with 190 companies around the world, and is the most comprehensive publisher on the market in this area.

This new service offered by Mozilla is paid, at $8.99 per month. The company explains that it must finance the maintenance costs of its new product, in particular the permanent monitoring of the various data brokers.

The first scan is free, to test the service, but then you will have to checkout to benefit from this additional protection. For the moment, Mozilla Monitor Plus is only available in the United States, but we can subsequently expect a deployment in France.

Source : Mozilla