California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

9 Comments

  1. Note: Once you make the request, a new profile is immediately created and doesn’t include any prior requests to block data collection! Oh and it copies all the “anonymous” data from the previous profile before deleting it! I betcha..

  2. BlushingHorizon on

    Amazing that our privacy solution used to be “email 500 data brokers and trust them.”If this actually works, it’s a rare case of tech making life less annoying instead of more.Curious how long before other states copy this.

  3. Careful California, this sounds a bit like GDPR and we know how much US companies pay DJT to keep them from obeying the law

  4. Are we going to still believe that the data is going to be destroyed? This is an entire network. There’s no way on earth. Your data is getting removed at any point.

    It’s the largest game of whacking mole