Source: Geoffrey Fowler, Washington Post ( Paid Registration )

A new iPhone and Android app called Permission Slip makes it super simple to order companies to delete your personal information and secrets.  Did I mention Permission Slip is free? And it’s made by an organization you can trust: the nonprofit Consumer Reports.

Permission Slip acts behind the scenes as a legally “authorized agent” — kind of like your own privacy butler. You tell the app your name, email address(es) and phone number, and it does most of the work, sending emails and filling out paperwork on your behalf after it has verified your information. Even if your state isn’t one of the ones with a privacy law, most national companies respect these sorts of data privacy requests from all Americans.

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