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What is Slaps PII removal service?

We action removal requests to mitigate cyber security risks and reduce spam. We advise using a PII removal service as one of your security steps to help prevent:

• Identify theft and fraudulent transactions that cost billions a year.
• Phishing attacks that cost businesses trillions of dollars.
• Annoying sales calls, texts, and emails that consume millions of hours.

We know that limiting PII exposure online is a best practice cyber security step.

What data do we remove?

Anything and everything we can. Initially we are focused on B2B contact databases that hold mobile phone numbers, personal emails, work emails, date of birth, dates of education or anything else that can be used to identify you.

A legal contract between you and Slaps is required to remove PII data:

The purpose of the contract is to give us (Slaps) agency to remove details, file complaints, escalate through the Australian court system, provide details to OAIC to act on behalf of Australians in foreign jurisdictions, compile data for class action law suits internationally.

Action enabled by giving Slaps legal agency:

1. Request removal from APP entities in Australia and abroad.
2. Request current information held
3. We become an authorised agent to make complaints to OAIC - Office of the Australian Information Commission and foreign government privacy departments.
4. Rights to escalate breaches of the APPs in the Australian court system: Requesting preliminary information, Requesting information, Submitting applications for the High Court to subpoena foreign databases to Produce Documents, and Negotiating and/or settlements with databases.
5. Right to proactively inform Australian companies and local subsidiaries that the databases are breaching APPs. This may include things like notifying Cloudflare, AWS, GCP, or domain providers as they are helping host PII breaches.
6. Ability to save your details and add your details to a list of people who are willing to participate in class action law suits in any jurisdiction.
7. File with the Federal Court of Australia to have ISPs block the databases domains.
8. Right to transfer legal agency to local class action litigators, and/or litigation funding firms in the databases own jurisdiction. This includes forgoing any payouts from a successful class action suit.

What is an APP entity, who is Slaps targeting?

This means any contact database, broker, search aggregator, or waterfall contact detail supplier as they fall into the buckets of: collect; use; disclose; and store of personal information.

People we can’t help:

Politicians, those with personal data in the public domain, people who have changed with LinkedIn profiles from hide details to share contact details, those who have given explicit consent for their data to be sold, and those who are not verified via IDverse and LinkedIn OpenID.

Does it work?

Yes. If they don’t remove the data they are very likely breaching the Australia Privacy Act 1988 and participating in the illegal to use, supply or acquisition of addresses harvested by software per the The Spam Act 2003 (Cth).

“Your business must avoid using address-harvesting software in all instances.” - Legalvision

What we do to compel removal from bad actors, those who refuse:

• We actively inform their Australian clients of the illegal nature of use of their contact data.
• We actively inform the technology stack suppliers of their participation in the illegal use, collection, holding, and distribution of data.
• We use the the 2022 amendments to the Privacy Act to have the Australian Government work with foreign authorities to issue notices in the APP entities own jurisdiction.
• We file class action law suits against the companies/directors in their own judications.

Common excuses and responses:

We hear and do not apply to companies breaching and/or illegally harvesting contact details. Use opt-out links, ignoring the request, verification demands, partial compliancy, temporary removal, claiming valid explicit consent to hold the data, data non-existence claim, jurisdictional excuses, claiming a cost to process, amongst others.

You are not alone. 90% of Australians want businesses and government agencies to do more to protect their personal information - OAIC.

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How we make money:

• Direct payments from consumers.
• Businesses paying for removal on behalf of their customers or employees.
• Class action law suits for non-compliance.

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Want to learn more? 

• ONSIT - learn about open source intelligence and data sources‍
• Gilbert & Tobin’s state of privacy is a great write up.
• The enforcers in AU are the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner‍
• Help? Send us an email.