{
  "id": 8552882,
  "title": "I’m building a tool to discover who holds your personal data (and delete it) 🛠️",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/im-building-a-tool-to-discover-who-holds-your-personal-data-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-19T22:21:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/wmd_dev/show-dev-im-building-a-tool-to-discover-who-holds-your-personal-data-and-delete-it-10i3"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hi everyone! 👋 The core idea is simple: finding out which companies hold your personal data shouldn't take hours of research, and asking them to delete it shouldn't require hours of manual work either. To address this, I’m working on a tool that combines a local browser extension with a companion website. 🔍 How it works (2-step process) Local detection: The browser extension uses various…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}