Unsubscribe and delete automation

A method comprising:

• identifying, by a computing device, a plurality of data brokers that have stored personal information associated with a consumer, by at least querying the one or more data brokers using an identity of the consumer to determine, based on a response to the query, whether the data broker has stored the personal information related to the identity included in the query;
• outputting, for display to the consumer, a listing of the plurality of data brokers;
• determining, for each of the plurality of data brokers, a corresponding data removal action;
• receiving, from the consumer, a user input indicative of a command to perform a data removal action corresponding to a first data broker of the plurality of data brokers, wherein the data removal action corresponding to the first data broker comprises an action causing deletion of personal information associated with the consumer that has been previously stored by the first data broker;
• and
• sending, to the first data broker, a message comprising a request to delete the personal information associated with the consumer.

A method comprising:

• determining, by a computing device and for a plurality of items of email correspondence, a likelihood that each item of email correspondence represents an account or subscription of a consumer;
• and
• based on the determined likelihood that each item of email correspondence represents an account or subscription of the consumer, generating a list of accounts and subscriptions associated with the consumer;
• based on the list of accounts and subscriptions, identifying one or more entities that have stored personal information associated with the consumer;
• outputting, for display to the consumer, a list of the one or more entities;
• determining a staleness of at least one account or subscription based on comparative analysis of a first correspondence frequency within a first time period representing a predefined period of recent correspondence compared to a second correspondence frequency within a longer term second time period representing a predefined period of historic correspondence, wherein whether the at least one account or subscription is stale is determined based on a decrease in frequency within the first time period relative to the second time period being above a predefined threshold;
• recommending removal of the at least one account or subscription responsive to determining that the at least one account or subscription is stale;
• determining, for at least one of the one or more entities with which the at least one stale account or subscription exists, a corresponding data removal action, wherein a data removal action corresponding to a first entity of the one or more entities comprises an action causing deletion of personal information associated with the consumer that has been previously stored by the first entity:
• determining, for each of the at least one entities, a privacy settings update action;
• receiving, from the consumer, a user input indicative of a command to perform a privacy settings update action corresponding to the first entity of the at least one entities;
• and
• based on the user input, sending a message to the first entity, wherein the message comprises a request to update privacy settings associated with the consumer.