Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RFC End Citizen Data Sales Act (California)
The sale of personal information by the government is something that has always really bothered me. This is a bill I drafted that would stop the DMV, voter registration, property tax records, and the post office from selling or publishing without explicit user consent. It would also require personal information to be accompanied with the provenance of that data. This way, a user can track down who or what is publishing their data and take action to end their relationship with that company. I would appreciate any feedback, because I am sure I am missing some second and third order effects…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RFC End Citizen Data Sales Act (California) launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN - I made a site that takes a UK postcode, grabs the local MP's information and generates an AI mockup of what their ID might look like. It's a small, silly protest at the stupidity of the Online Safety Act that just came into force. edit - My open AI credits got hugged to death, please use a known postcode (like one from Kier Starmer's constituency, WC2B6NH) in the meantime.
2025 · use-their-id.com · its alternatives →
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Our data is our property. Take back control over your data.
2020 · datadividendproject.com · its alternatives →
- 3NA
We just shipped a new feature in NextDNS: Bypass Age Verification. More and more sites (especially adult ones) are now forcing users to upload IDs or selfies to continue. We think that’s a terrible idea: handing over government documents to random sites is a huge privacy risk. This new setting workarounds those verification flows via DNS tricks. It’s available today to all users, including free accounts. We’re curious how the HN community feels about this. Is it the right way to protect privacy online, or will it just provoke regulators to push harder? https://nextdns.io
2025 · its alternatives →
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Ghostifier▲128Companies have your data. Ghostifier gets them to delete it.
25d ago · ghostifier.com · its alternatives →
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iubenda for CCPA▲135All-in-one solution for the new California privacy law
2020 · iubenda.com · its alternatives →
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Before starting, i posted about america pac's unethical data collection a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41139801 Please read the linked cnbc's story, it explains almost everything there Long story short, america pac collects user data while lying and hiding its true intentions. Apparently, the data they collect might (and probably will be) used for door to door canvassing for donald trump. I find this deeply unethical and shady. I thought a nice idea to waste door to door canvasser's time was to pollute the database with fake names, fake emails... i've…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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"Data brokers" have increasing access to Americans’ personal info -- a multibillion-dollar industry that the government fears invades privacy
2014 · cbsnews.com · its alternatives →
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Docusign for provable deletion - anywhere, everywhere.
Apr 2026 · zombiedelete.com · its alternatives →
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Often we assume a data-set of one is valid...
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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I signed up for a paid service to get my phone, addresses, and vehicles off the public internet. It didn’t work. So I built remove-your-data, an open-source repo that tells your agent exactly what to do to remove your personal information online.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Did your representatives accept contributions from the NRA?
2016 · whoismyvoice.com · its alternatives →
- 12
Hacking and The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
2015 · open.spotify.com · its alternatives →
- 13RT
The NSA metadata gathering and passive monitoring is quite upsetting, and we don't have much confidence in legal changes happening quickly, so we put together a really simple consumer VPN service. We're still cleaning up the UI and making the install process easier, but it should work for people now. Yes, it's based in the US, but there's a big difference between "will turn over data proactively" and "will push back on requests to the fullest extent of the law". Since we don't fall under CALEA, there's no requirement for us to have any monitoring infrastructure. We're focusing on the mobile…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Why contact-to-cancel isn't as evil as you may think
2017 · baremetrics.com · its alternatives →
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Eliminating personal online information
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
- 16DY
Hi Hackernews, I've started a service which deletes your personal data from data resellers/traders which as a result stops you receiving sales or recruiter calls/emails.The service forces companies which sell your data to Sales teams and recruiters to delete it. This works via GDPR and CCPA. You probably have never heard of companies, like Cognism, VoilaNorbert, etc., which have received millions of dollars of investment selling your personal data without people knowing. Example data stored by these companies: Data about you: Full name, First name, Last Name, Email (verified),…
2021 · its alternatives →
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BALLOT.FYI▲64Quickest nonpartisan voter guide for CA state propositions
2016 · ballot.fyi · its alternatives →
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I built the desktop app that detects and redacts personal data (or PII) locally without sending any text to server. It supports rule-based filtering and AI model-based redaction (eg openai privacy filter). It's open source and free. Please check out the repo and https://pii-gui.vercel.app/
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Needed this in my own work, anonymizing PII/PHI and decided to build this because presidio didn't really cut it for our use-case. Try it and maybe let me know if you have any feedback :)
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21PW
Over the weekend we built Parliament Wow. It's hacky, buggy and slightly broken but it does the job :) Parliament Wow makes it easy to find out what is going on in parliament and what it actually means for you and me. We know that nobody has the time to watch hours of debates, drown in legal paperwork or keep up with the implications of every vote. Not me or you and least of all your MPs. There is just too much data. So we made a solution. We paired some semantic search with every publicly accessible document, audio recording or transcript we could get our hands on + some generative models…
2024 · parliament-wow.threepointone.workers.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I’ve been thinking a lot about barriers to civic participation. Most people don’t show up to town halls. They don’t respond to traditional surveys. And a lot of online political spaces feel loud, adversarial, or exhausting. So I started wondering what happens if you make participation radically lightweight. That’s where Civie comes in. Each day you answer one to three short civic questions. It takes under a minute. Responses are anonymous. Results are shown only in aggregate. Over time, those responses accumulate into an open dataset anyone can explore. This isn’t scientific polling,…
Feb 2026 · civie.org · its alternatives →
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Share how you're going to vote with your friends.
2018 · its alternatives →
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A review of your site + California privacy law
2020 · its alternatives →
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