It has been pointed out that a company that provides a service for deleting personal information from the Internet also operates a service for searching personnel information on the Internet.

Security experts have pointed out that the CEO of a data privacy company that provides a service that removes personal information from search results is behind the scenes operating dozens of human resources investigation services.

CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security

Brian Krebs, a security expert and author of the information blog KrebsonSecurity, pointed out a problem with Onerep, a data privacy company based in Virginia.

Onerep is a service that removes personal information from over 200 search engines for $8.33 (about 1,240 yen) per month for individuals and $15 (about 2,240 yen) per month for families. We also provide a service for corporations to continuously delete data from employee information search sites.

According to Krebs, Onerep's founder and CEO is Dimitri Shelest, a native of Minsk, Belarus. When searching for Mr. Sherest's name and email address used in the past with a data breach tracking service, it was found that he is the founder of Nuwber, a human resources information search service that is included in Onerep's information deletion services. It seems like it is.

Mr. Sherest featured on Onerep's '

Regarding the allegations surrounding Onerep, in 2017 PrivacyDuck, a rival data privacy company, created a special page comparing its services with Onerep, stating that ``Onerep is based in Belarus and has no verifiable track record in the United States.'' ``In the past, I was reported for displaying personal information online, and since then I have continued to display personal information on our sister site Nuwber.''

PrivacyDuck vs OneRep.com (the Eastern European Privacy Company) | PrivacyDuck

However, the page in question has been deleted due to site renewal, etc. Mr. Krebs also stated that since the content of Onerep's site has been completely deleted from the Internet Archive, it is not possible to verify whether personal information was posted on the site in the past. However, it is certain that Mr. Shelest has a history of being involved in the largest drug spam affiliate campaign in Russian.

Both Sherest and Onerep have remained silent in response to Krebs' inquiries.

In addition, Mozilla, known as the developer of the web browser ``Firefox'', uses Onerep's service to delete data from the data leakage check function ``Mozilla Monitor'' provided as a subscription service. In response to inquiries from Krebs, Mozilla said, ``We have evaluated Onerep's service and confirmed that it operates in accordance with Mozilla's privacy principles.'' ``We have previously partnered with the entity named in (Krebs') article.'' 'We will investigate further. We always put our customers' privacy and security first and we have ensured that we will end the partnership before working with [Mozilla].' We will provide updates accordingly.'