Weekly Update 511: Live from my Riad in Marrakech
Summary
Troy Hunt's weekly update from Marrakech discusses the futility of trying to remove personal data from data brokers and addresses companies' misguided marketing efforts.
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# Weekly Update 511: Live from my Riad in Marrakech
Source: [https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-511/](https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-511/)
How's this for a location?\! I mean, last week was nice with Scott in Mallorca, but Marrakech is, well, wow 😮 Anyway, about those data breaches\.\.\. This week I'm talking about[the futility of attempting to remove piss from a pool](https://www.troyhunt.com/swimming-pools-pee-and-trying-to-delete-your-data-from-the-internet/), yet here we are, with various companies wanting to place that message alongside the very data breaches they can do nothing about\! As I say in the post, I don't question the good intentions behind setting up a service to try to scrub data from legally operating data brokers, but the marketing machines behind those organisations that regularly reach out to me for product placement don't really seem to grasp that reality\. At least now they have a nice explainer courtesy of that post 😊
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