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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it

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If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it

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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1303874/if-you-live-in-california-you-can-now-tell-data-brokers-to-delete-your-personal-informat

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  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    And they will definitely actually totally for sure do it!

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    the real question is; how will one be able to verify that the data has indeed been deleted?

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      “Would you like to check our database for your personal data? Please fill out this form with your personal data.”

      • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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        Reminds of that website some guy created where you had to type in your credit card details to find out if someone had your credit card details 🤔

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          Fucking genius.

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            I seriously doubt 75% of password strength checkers for that very reason.

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    deleted is a column in a database

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      To be fair, having gone through a couple of GDPR transitions, deleted in reality is often a full row in the PII table. All your actions and behaviour are still logged, there’s just longer any way to tie your ID back to PII.

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    If you live anywhere, you can tell data brokers to delete your data. Will they, whether they’re in California or not?

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    Hello fellow Californians

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    Please just link to the original source…

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

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