MelonCard allows you to remove personal online information using one website.
Founders Robert Leshner and Geoff Hayes came up with the idea for MelonCard purely by fate. While the pair was working on their first project – Drawn.to – they stumbled across researching how to remove personal information from the web.
“After looking around, we found it’s a really cumbersome and time consuming process,” explained Leshner. “You have to send faxes all over saying please stop selling my information. The process is broken so we took 24 hours and dedicated ourselves to building this really rough prototype of MelonCard.”
Once a MelonCard account is set up, members click on the Dashboard and select which sites remove information from. The type of information removed varies from basics like phone numbers to interests and views on politics. A tally on the dashboard shows how many sites have been expunged and a grade level of privacy.
The prototype was shared among friends that later found the tool’s automated system to be much simpler and more practical than current solutions. It took care of a big concern for avid Internet users. The initial site, which had an automatic way for information to be removed from six or seven companies, has expanded since then.
https://meloncard.com/