California’s Delete Act lets consumers make one request to delete personal data
www.theverge.comCalifornians get more control of their data.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Delete Act yesterday, making it possible for Californians to either ask data brokers to delete their personal data or forbid them to sell or share it, with a single request.
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nooo don’t delete california
“By January 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency must create a way for people to make data brokers delete their data with a single request.”
We have a few years to wait.
It’s a step. A massive step in the right direction.
Which will soon be forgotten about due to the 24x7 news cycle, and minimal progress (if any) will be made by 2026.
It’s better than no step at all. His announcement of this will get the attention of more legislators and other governors from other states and as long as people support stuff like this, then we can influence more privacy protecting laws.
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Once again, thank you. California for leading the way for the rest of the USA.
California could start by forbidding its own DMV from selling this data to data brokers in the fucking first place.
I tend to disagree with a lot of Californian politics, but hot damn are their pro consumer laws the best. Can’t wait for 2026.
Stop voting against them then. The republicans you support would gut these laws first chance they get.
Sounds awesome. Hopefully this catches on elsewhere.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) must create a way for people to make this request by January 1st, 2026.
The law reuses definitions of brokers that the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 established, which required businesses to disclose, delete, or withhold from sharing or selling personal data as requested by individuals.
Then, in 2020, the California Privacy Rights Act amended the previous law and established the CPPA.
The Los Angeles Times quoted California Senator Josh Becker, the bill’s author, as saying that brokers sell thousands of individual consumers’ data points on “reproductive healthcare, geolocation, and purchasing data to the highest bidder,” adding that “the DELETE Act protects our most sensitive information.”
The outlet went on to quote the VP of communications for the Consumer Data Industry Association, Justin Hakes, as saying that the bill could undermine fraud protections and keep small businesses from competing with the data dominance of large platforms.
It applies to companies that grossed more than $25 million in revenue the year before and “annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households.” And it only affects those businesses that make at least 50 percent of their annual revenue from the sale of people’s personal information.
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