What you actually get from Permission Slip
Permission Slip is a mobile app that acts as a consumer's legally authorized agent to send data-deletion and do-not-sell requests to companies, originally launched by Consumer Reports in 2022 and credited with facilitating nearly 5 million privacy requests across 400+ companies. In July 2026, Consumer Reports transferred the app to DeleteMe, which continues to operate it under the Permission Slip name with existing accounts and subscriptions carried over unchanged. It remains available on iOS and Android with a free tier plus an optional paid Plus upgrade.
Permission Slip pricing
Free tier for opt-out/deletion requests and status tracking; Plus tier adds automated opt-out from 100+ brokers for $59.99/yr or $4.99/mo.
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Opt out and deletion requests, request status tracking |
| Plus | $59.99/year, or $4.99/month | Automated opt-out from 100+ data brokers, bulk opt-out requests, human concierge requests (roughly 2-25/year) for companies without an easy digital process |
Source: innovation.consumerreports.org/introducing-permission-slip-plu, read 2026-09-07.
Strengths
- Genuinely free core tier, not just a free trial of a paid product
- Uses state authorized-agent laws (originating with CCPA) to send legally binding data requests on the user's behalf
- Plus tier is far cheaper than any full data-removal subscription in this category
- Track record of nearly 5 million privacy requests across 400+ companies since 2022
Weaknesses
- Effectiveness depends heavily on state privacy law; works best for California residents and is weaker for users in states without an authorized-agent provision
- Concierge (human-assisted) requests on Plus are capped at roughly 2-25 per year, not unlimited
- Now owned and operated by DeleteMe rather than an independent nonprofit, which may affect long-term product direction and data handling
Best for
- Budget-conscious users who want a legally-grounded opt-out tool at little to no cost
- California and other authorized-agent-state residents who want the strongest legal leverage
- People who want a companion tool alongside a full paid removal service rather than a replacement for one
Not ideal for
- Users outside the US who need international data-removal coverage
- Buyers who want an unlimited number of human-assisted concierge requests
Permission Slip tracks a brand. Reputation damage attaches to a person
Permission Slip is built around an organisational subject, which is the correct design for the job it was built to do, and it does that job.
Reputation damage does not stay organisational. It attaches to named individuals: a founder, an executive, a partner, a practitioner. Those names are searched separately, indexed separately, and increasingly summarised separately by AI assistants, and brand-scoped tooling does not watch them. The entity being harmed and the entity being monitored are not the same entity.
A confident paragraph merging two people reads exactly like a confident paragraph about one.
Name collisions make it worse. Share a name with someone who has a public record and you inherit that record, in the eyes of anyone searching casually and of any system summarising sloppily. Brand monitoring never surfaces it, because your brand was never mentioned. The damage lands on a person the tool was never pointed at.
Where this lands in 2026
Assistants conflate people constantly, and they do it with total fluency, which is what makes it dangerous. A confident paragraph merging two people with the same name reads exactly like a confident paragraph about one, and the only way to find it is to ask the disambiguation question directly.
That is why this review sits on the site of a firm that competes with Permission Slip. The argument is not that Permission Slip is a bad product. Its category was designed against a version of your problem that no longer describes the whole surface. The part it was never built to cover is the part growing fastest.
Broker opt-outs are a treadmill: the record repopulates from the source that leaked it. Removing the listing without closing the upstream feed buys you about ninety days.
Key facts
- Originally launched by Consumer Reports in 2022, acquired by DeleteMe in July 2026
- Free tier plus a $59.99/year (or $4.99/month) Plus tier
- Nearly 5 million privacy requests submitted across 400+ companies since launch
Permission Slip covers one lane. We cover the surface.
You get internet privacy as one protocol inside a measured engagement, not as a standalone subscription. Your exposure is measured first against a Bayesian baseline, then the counter-strike work runs, then your surface stays monitored across search, review platforms, and the AI answer layer.
Sources checked
- joindeleteme.com/permission-slip/
- innovation.consumerreports.org/introducing-permission-slip-plus/
- www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/30/3336081/0/en/deleteme-acquires-p
We read the vendor's own pages for every price on this review and record the date we read them. Where a figure comes from a third party we say so. Method: review methodology.