California residents can use new tool to demand brokers delete their personal data

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

The Delete Act

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/about-drop-and-the-delete-act/

#HackerNews #DeleteAct #Privacy #Protection #DataRights #OnlineSafety

California’s New Delete Request Tool Impacts Data Brokers and Residents. Tool will be available to consumers by January 1, 2026.

"Starting August 1, 2026, data brokers must access the DROP system every 45 days to retrieve and process deletion requests."

https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-information-security-law/californias-new-delete-request-tool-impacts-data-brokers-and-residents

#databrokers #optout #delete #CPPA #DROP #DeleteAct

CPPA Brings Enforcement Action Against National Public Data -- but not over the massive hack and data leak -- but because they failed to register with the state as a data broker under the state's Delete Act.

https://databreaches.net/2025/02/21/cppa-brings-enforcement-action-against-national-public-data/

#CPPA #DeleteAct #NPD #JericoPictures #databroker

not affiliated with this #job just sharing what looks like an awesome #privacy #sysadmin opportunity in #california

(implementation for the #DeleteAct so you get to go home every day knowing you helped make the surveillance industry big mad)

https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=466076

URGENT ACTION: call now to demand a national “do not call” registry for data brokers. We’ve made it easy with a script if you call 215-515-8771 or visit https://DoNotDox.com/call

Privacy is safety, and if we get the #DELETEAct we’ll live in a world with more of both.

Devastating coverage of the harms #DataBrokers cause to #abortion workers, patients, and activists—including stories from two of our staff at ❤️Fight.

We need the #DELETEAct yesterday so we can opt out of this abuse-to-profit machine. https://19thnews.org/2024/04/doxxing-personal-data-reproductive-health-care-workers/