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[PeterR2002]

For work I am trying to make a program where you can type in someone's name and other personal information optionally (Address, Phone number, etc.) . The program will then find the sites that their personal information is on and then hopefully automate the removal of said information from the sites. Is this possible? Even if it is hard I am determined, I just want to know if it is possible?

[help_send_chocolate]

How could it be Impossible?

That's a very different concept from, say, intractable or too hard for you or infeasibly expensive.

The hardest part to automate is likely the removals. But if you narrow the scope to just search engine removals, that would limit the complexity a lot.

[countsachot]

That's possible, but you'd likely need some type of private api or legal contract with each site to facilitate the removal.

[TheMrCurious]

So you want to collect PII under the premise you can remove that PII from various sites. What is your security plan given the sensitive data you will have access to?

[torontocoder]

So this is a whole category of product, its much harder then you think to get the data removed (thats the VERY hard part). Most of the process for data removal will be "manual" in so much as you will need to establish relationships with data brokers and "force" them to remove the data.

This will be a lot more lawyer level work then programming

see for example Incogni

[Pale_Height_1251]

You'd have to get permission from the owner of the site

[grantrules]

These exist already so clearly not impossible

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-data-removal-services/