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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 (lapublicpress.org)
submitted 1 hour ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4 points 34 minutes ago

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

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

And they will definitely actually totally for sure do it!

[–] trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 4 points 48 minutes ago

they pinky promise 😂

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 7 points 1 hour ago

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