Security News > 2024 > February > Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar

Mozilla on Tuesday expanded its free privacy-monitoring service with a paid-for tier called Mozilla Monitor Plus that will try to get data brokers to delete their copies of subscribers' personal information.

Necessarily alert to revenue diversification opportunities in light of its dependence on Google paying to be the default search service on its beleaguered Firefox browser, Mozilla has taken Monitor beyond HIBP alerts, added data removal, and branded that expanded service Monitor Plus with a subscription fee of $8.99 per month.

"Now, with Monitor Plus, we'll help people take back their exposed data from data broker sites that are trying to sell it."

Mozilla claims Monitor Plus will work with over 190 data broker sites, "Twice the number of other competitors." As a point of comparison, Opetery's top tier boasts removals from more than 305 sites, though at a cost of more than twice what Mozilla is asking.

So Mozilla Monitor Plus is an incomplete, temporary fix - sites may reacquire customer data, necessitating follow-up removal requests - in a largely unregulated data broker business that has made few accommodations to demands for privacy.

Starting January 1, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency is supposed to deploy a one-stop data deletion mechanism to allow consumers to request that data brokers stop tracking them and delete their personal info.

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