California launches DROP platform, letting residents send one deletion request to 500+ data brokers! 🔒 Launched Jan 1 under 2023 Delete Act—verify via state ID & reclaim privacy from data sales. Enforcement ramps up Aug 2026. https://cyberinsider.com/california-launches-tool-enabling-mass-opt-out-from-data-brokers/ #PrivacyWin #DataBrokers #CalPrivacy #Newz

Lol — twenty years later after #FCKGAFAM already stole all the data. xD #opinion well beter late then never… #amirite  ✨ 💫

Oh — yesterday I remembered that I had opted out of data-broker stuff several years ago, with two different services 🤣

There hasn't, anyway, been much data to begin with — also no ad ID from either Apple or Google. #compartmentalization #dataretention

#OptedOut #DataBrokers #PrivacyWins #TookAction 😂✅ #diday #didit #already xD #UnpluTrump #FCKBigTech

#Incogni #DeleteMe #Optery #Aura

The nation’s strictest #privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians are getting a new, supercharged way to stop data brokers from hoarding and selling their personal information, as a recently enacted law that’s among the strictest in the nation took effect at the beginning of the year.
#databrokers #california

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/data-broker-hoarding-is-rampant-new-law-lets-consumers-fight-back/

California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info

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

#HackerNews #California #Data #Privacy #DataBrokers #PersonalInformation #DigitalRights

The Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List

Yaelwrites has been maintaining BADBOOL since 2017. It is a up-to-date list of all known databrokers that hoard your data and how to opt out from it.

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List?tab=readme-ov-file

#tech #technology #data #privacy #security #databrokers

#California #privacy #DataBrokers #PersonalInformation

'California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit data brokers’ ability to store and sell their personal information.'

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/03/california-residents-can-use-new-tool-to-demand-brokers-delete-their-personal-data/

TechCrunch: California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data. “California is giving residents a new tool that should make it easier for them to limit data brokers’ ability to store and sell their personal information…. Once DROP users verify that they are California residents, they can submit a deletion request that will go to all current and future data […]