Mozilla It provides a tool that can automatically monitor data brokers for your personal data and delete any of your details exposed to them. Mozilla Monitor Plus expands on Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor) service that allows you to notify you if your email address has been included in a data breach.
This new paid service, which costs $9 a month or $107.88 a year, aims to make sure your personal data stays out of more than 190 data broker sites. Mozilla says this is twice the number of data brokers controlled by its competitors. Subscribers will also receive a data breach alert.
To better understand how widespread the problem is, you can get a free one-time scan that shows if and where your data has been exposed. To do this, you must sign up for a Mozilla account and provide your name, current city and state, date of birth, and email address. Mozilla says it will encrypt this data, noting that it’s the least it needs to get the most accurate results. The tool will also highlight data from “high-risk data breaches,” such as social security numbers, credit card details and bank information, along with tips on how to delete that data.
Mozilla Monitor and Monitor Plus is currently only available to people living in the United States. Google offers a similar tool. If you sign up for the Mozilla version, you can get access to features including two-factor authentication, an email alias tool. Firefox Relay and Mozilla VPN.
