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The former merchant of personal data was not the best partner for protecting privacy.
Mozilla decided to stop working with Onerep, a company that develops a centralized personal data deletion service. This service was the basis of the Mozilla Monitor Plus product, which extends the capabilities of the Mozilla Monitor tool built into Firefox to track data leaks.
The reason for the breakup of relations was the identification of the connection of Onerep founder Dmitry Shelest with networks engaged in the search and sale of personal information of users. As it turned out, before founding Onerep, Shelest was involved in creating systems for collecting and trading personal data, as well as site farms for SEO optimization. Moreover, he is a co-founder of the still-active Nuwber project, which aggregates available personal information and sells reports about people.
Dmitry Shelest admitted that in the past he was engaged in systems for collecting and selling personal data, some of which still exist today, but said that at present he has switched exclusively to solving issues related to information protection. According to him, past involvement in personal data search projects is a strong point of Onerep, as the knowledge and understanding of internal cuisine gained in the process of working on such services allow us to effectively create solutions to counter information leakage.
Shelest confirmed his stake in Nuwber, but noted that the brokerage company's activities do not overlap with Onerep and there is no data exchange between them. He also denied any connection with the Spamit project.
In February, Mozilla launched a paid Monitor Plus service based on Onerep to track attempts to sell user data and automatically send requests to delete this information. The service monitored over 190 sites selling personal information, including full names, contact details, residential addresses, and court records. As initial data for monitoring, you were asked to enter your first and last name, city of residence, date of birth and email address, i.e. transfer your personal data to the Onerep service.
The fate of the Monitor Plus project, which was a wrapper over Onerep, is not yet clear. However, the standard check for data leaks is through the monitor website.firefox.com still available, as is database integration haveibeenpwned.com containing information about billions of compromised accounts.
Mozilla decided to stop working with Onerep, a company that develops a centralized personal data deletion service. This service was the basis of the Mozilla Monitor Plus product, which extends the capabilities of the Mozilla Monitor tool built into Firefox to track data leaks.
The reason for the breakup of relations was the identification of the connection of Onerep founder Dmitry Shelest with networks engaged in the search and sale of personal information of users. As it turned out, before founding Onerep, Shelest was involved in creating systems for collecting and trading personal data, as well as site farms for SEO optimization. Moreover, he is a co-founder of the still-active Nuwber project, which aggregates available personal information and sells reports about people.
Dmitry Shelest admitted that in the past he was engaged in systems for collecting and selling personal data, some of which still exist today, but said that at present he has switched exclusively to solving issues related to information protection. According to him, past involvement in personal data search projects is a strong point of Onerep, as the knowledge and understanding of internal cuisine gained in the process of working on such services allow us to effectively create solutions to counter information leakage.
Shelest confirmed his stake in Nuwber, but noted that the brokerage company's activities do not overlap with Onerep and there is no data exchange between them. He also denied any connection with the Spamit project.
In February, Mozilla launched a paid Monitor Plus service based on Onerep to track attempts to sell user data and automatically send requests to delete this information. The service monitored over 190 sites selling personal information, including full names, contact details, residential addresses, and court records. As initial data for monitoring, you were asked to enter your first and last name, city of residence, date of birth and email address, i.e. transfer your personal data to the Onerep service.
The fate of the Monitor Plus project, which was a wrapper over Onerep, is not yet clear. However, the standard check for data leaks is through the monitor website.firefox.com still available, as is database integration haveibeenpwned.com containing information about billions of compromised accounts.