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Automated data broker removal tool — close your accounts, erase your data.

Project description

OpenEraseMe

Automated data broker removal tool — close your accounts, erase your data.

Beta — Core features are stable and tested. Some advanced features (web-form CAPTCHA solving, DPA auto-filing) require manual setup or are event-flagged only.

CI License Python

OpenEraseMe helps you exercise your GDPR/CCPA right to erasure against data brokers. It provides:

  • A curated registry of 600+ data brokers with opt-out processes documented
  • CLI tools to plan, send, track, and triage removal requests
  • Skills for LLM-powered agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc.)
  • Lifecycle management with deadline tracking, reminders, escalation, and re-scans
  • Automated registry maintenance via weekly scans of public state broker registries

Features

  • Curated broker registry with YAML-based definitions for 602 data brokers across the EU (37), UK (6), and US (559), including opt-out URLs, required account identifiers, contact methods (web forms, email), and verification keywords.
  • Event-sourced architecture with an append-only SQLite event store, state projections, and full audit trail for every removal request.
  • CLI automation with 30+ commands to plan removal campaigns, send opt-out requests in batches, track progress, monitor deadlines, and triage broker replies from the terminal.
  • Web-form automation via Playwright for brokers that only accept opt-outs through web forms, including form-filling, CAPTCHA detection, and screenshot capture.
  • Inbox triage via IMAP polling to fetch broker replies, classify them with an LLM (Claude), and generate jurisdiction-aware rebuttals for rejections.
  • Deadline tracking with automatic jurisdiction-aware deadline monitoring (GDPR: 30 days, CCPA: 45 days). The tick engine checks daily for overdue requests and triggers reminders with exponential backoff.
  • Escalation workflows that flag requests for DPA complaints after brokers miss the legal response window.
  • LLM agent skills as ready-made skill files for Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other LLM-powered coding agents. These skills let AI assistants work with the tool on your behalf.
  • Jurisdiction-aware workflows with support for GDPR (Europe), CCPA (California), CPRA, LGPD, and PIPEDA erasure rights, including jurisdiction-specific templates, timelines, and legal references.
  • Scheduler integration that generates cron, launchd, or systemd configurations to run the tick engine, inbox polling, and quarterly re-scans automatically.
  • Automated registry maintenance with a weekly GitHub Action that pulls fresh entries from official US state broker registries and opens a PR with the diff, plus a Monday link-check workflow that flags dead broker websites.
  • Dashboard and reports for campaign analytics, jurisdiction breakdowns, and GDPR-compliant record-keeping exports.

Install

End users (from PyPI):

pip install openeraseme

Optional extras:

pip install openeraseme[web]      # Playwright-based browser automation
pip install openeraseme[triage]   # LLM triage via Anthropic Claude

Developers (from source):

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/danieljustus/OpenEraseMe.git
cd OpenEraseMe

# Install dependencies with uv
uv sync
uv pip install -e ".[dev,web,triage]"

# Configure your environment
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY

See .env.example for all supported environment variables.

Usage

Getting started

# Initialize your profile with personal details
openeraseme init-profile

# List all registered brokers, optionally filtered by jurisdiction
openeraseme brokers list --jurisdiction GDPR

# Show details for a specific broker
openeraseme brokers show --name spokeo

Demo

$ openeraseme init-profile
✓ Profile saved to ~/.config/openeraseme/profile.json

$ openeraseme brokers list --jurisdiction GDPR
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Name         ┃ Website                     ┃ Jurisdiction  ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Spokeo       │ https://www.spokeo.com      │ CCPA          │
│ Intelius     │ https://www.intelius.com    │ CCPA          │
│ Acxiom (EU)  │ https://www.acxiom.com      │ GDPR          │
│ Schufa       │ https://www.schufa.de       │ GDPR          │
└──────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴───────────────┘

$ openeraseme plan create --campaign initial --jurisdiction GDPR --max 5
✓ Plan created: 5 brokers selected
  Campaign: initial

$ openeraseme status
Campaign: initial
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Broker      ┃ Status      ┃ Deadline             ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Acxiom (EU) │ planned     │ —                    │
│ Schufa      │ planned     │ —                    │
│ Experian EU │ planned     │ —                    │
│ Equifax EU  │ planned     │ —                    │
│ Creditreform│ planned     │ —                    │
└─────────────┴─────────────┴──────────────────────┘

Planning and execution

# Create a removal plan for GDPR brokers (limit to 10)
openeraseme plan create --campaign initial --jurisdiction GDPR --max 10

# Review the plan before sending
openeraseme plan show --campaign initial

# Execute the plan in batches (respects rate limits, requires consent)
openeraseme execute --campaign initial --batch-size 5 --delay 30 --yes

# Check overall campaign progress
openeraseme status

# View deadline calendar and upcoming tick actions
openeraseme calendar --weeks 4

Inbox triage (requires [triage] extra)

# Poll your IMAP inbox for broker replies
openeraseme poll-inbox --username your@email.com

# Classify a broker reply via LLM
openeraseme classify-reply <request_id>

# Generate a jurisdiction-aware rebuttal for a rejection
openeraseme generate-rebuttal <request_id>

Web-form automation (requires [web] extra)

# Run a broker's web-form opt-out via Playwright
openeraseme run-web-form <broker_id>

# List manual fallback tasks for forms that couldn't be automated
openeraseme manual-tasks list

# Mark a manual task as completed
openeraseme manual-tasks complete <task_id>

Lifecycle and maintenance

# Run the tick engine (checks deadlines, reminders, escalations)
openeraseme tick --dry-run
openeraseme tick

# Generate scheduler configs (cron / launchd / systemd)
openeraseme generate-scheduler --output ./schedules

# Install schedules
openeraseme schedule install ./schedules

# Generate a dashboard report
openeraseme generate-dashboard

# Export campaign data for GDPR record-keeping
openeraseme export --format json --output campaign.json

Other commands

# Validate registry YAML files against the schema
openeraseme validate

# Show event history for a request
openeraseme events show <request_id>

# List all removal requests
openeraseme requests list --status pending

# Grant consent for destructive operations
openeraseme grant execute --ttl 3600

Run openeraseme --help for a full list of commands and options.

Architecture

OpenEraseMe uses an event-sourced architecture built on SQLite:

┌─────────────┐     ┌──────────────┐     ┌─────────────┐
│   CLI /     │────▶│   Event      │────▶│  Request    │
│   Skills    │     │   Store      │     │  State      │
└─────────────┘     │  (SQLite)    │     │ (Projection)│
                    └──────────────┘     └─────────────┘
                           │
                    ┌──────┴──────┐
                    ▼             ▼
            ┌──────────┐   ┌──────────┐
            │  Tick    │   │  Reports │
            │  Engine  │   │ / Export │
            └──────────┘   └──────────┘
  • Event Store: Append-only log of all actions (planned, sent, ack, reminder, deadline reached, etc.)
  • State Projection: Rebuilds the current state of every request from events
  • Tick Engine: Daily scan for deadlines, reminders, and escalations
  • Triage: LLM-based classification of broker replies with jurisdiction-aware rebuttal generation

Registry maintenance

The broker registry is kept fresh by two scheduled GitHub Actions:

  • registry-scanner (Sundays, 00:00 UTC) — fetches the latest data-broker registries published by US states (e.g. California, Vermont, Oregon, Texas), normalizes the records into YAML entries, and opens a pull request for any additions or changes.
  • registry-link-check (Mondays, 06:00 UTC) — issues a HEAD request to every broker's website field and reports unreachable URLs so dead entries can be retired or corrected.

You can also run the sync manually:

uv run python scripts/registry_sync.py

Development

Setup

uv sync --all-extras
uv pip install -e ".[dev,web,triage]"
pre-commit install

Run tests

uv run pytest --verbose --tb=short

Lint and type-check

uv run ruff check src/openeraseme/
uv run ruff format --check src/openeraseme/
uv run mypy src/openeraseme/

All three checks run in CI on every push and pull request to the main branch.

Project structure

src/openeraseme/
  cli/           — Typer CLI application
  core/          — Event store, projections, tick engine, templating, scheduler
  registry/      — Broker loader, schema validation
  services/      — CLI command handlers
  adapters/      — Web (Playwright), Triage (Claude), Email (SMTP/IMAP)
registry/
  brokers/       — YAML broker definitions (eu/, uk/, us/)
  laws/          — Jinja2 legal templates (GDPR, CCPA, rebuttals)
  schemas/       — JSON Schema for broker validation
skills/          — LLM agent skill files (Claude Code, OpenClaw)
examples/        — Integration examples for Claude Code, OpenClaw, cron

License

MIT

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