California data brokers must start deleting personal data requests Aug. 1

California data brokers must start deleting personal data requests Aug. 1

Californians can tell data brokers to DROP their information

California has launched the Delete Request and Opt‑out Platform (DROP), a state‑run portal that lets residents send deletion and opt‑out requests to all registered data brokers. This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: Californians can tell data brokers to DROP their information The post Californians can tell data brokers to DROP their information appeared first on IT Security News.

California just forced 500 data brokers to delete your history on request

The 215,000 California residents who had already filed deletion requests through the state’s DROP platform got something new on August 1: the companies sitting on their data are now legally required to act. Starting that date, every registered data broker in California must retrieve pending deletion requests and process them — the first time any U.S. state has centralized that demand across an entire industry simultaneously. The platform works a…