Legal Teeth for $29

Here’s a thing I believe: the reason companies ignore deletion requests isn’t malice. It’s that ignoring them has never cost anything.

A person emails “please delete my account.” Maybe it lands. Maybe someone reads it. There’s no deadline, no record, no consequence for silence. The request evaporates, and everyone involved knows it will. The asymmetry is the product: your data is an asset on their books and a favor on yours.

White Glove flips the asymmetry for $29 a year. Here’s the machine:

You import your accounts — a password-manager export works. You verify you actually own the email involved, because we never send a demand on an identity you haven’t proven. Then you click revoke, and PRYVC acts as your authorized agent: we find the site’s privacy contact (we’ll check the domain registry when the site hides it), send a formal deletion and cease-contact notice citing the actual statutes, and start a 10-business-day clock.

Then the interesting part. If they comply — great, recorded. If they ignore you, that’s recorded too, in the same tamper-evident chain as everything else. Silence becomes evidence. You get a package built for regulatory complaints: the notice, the deadline, the non-response, every timestamp hash-chained, plus a sworn declaration you sign yourself under 28 U.S.C. § 1746. Not a PDF pretending to be an affidavit — I killed an earlier version of this document for exactly that sin. A real declaration, your words, your signature, with the platform’s business records traveling separately because they’re authenticated differently.

One more thing we shipped this week: additional emails. You’ve had aliases — old addresses, the plus-variants, the one you used in 2016. Verify each one (a code to the address itself; unverified addresses are never sent anywhere) and every notice lists all of them, so “we couldn’t find your account” stops being an exit.

The free tier does the core forever — sharing, the data trail, revocation itself. White Glove is for people with a decade of accounts and no interest in sending forty polite emails by hand.

Fair question: does a $29 evidence pack actually move a company? Sometimes the notice alone does it. But that was never the whole point. The point is that for the first time, not moving costs them something — a documented, verifiable, regulator-ready record of exactly how little they cared. Consequences change behavior. Receipts create consequences.

Politeness never did.