California Wants to Help Delete Your Data, but Brokers Are Already Resisting

California wants to help residents delete their data, but brokers are already resisting

California’s new, first-of-its-kind “DROP” program enabling residents to have personal information deleted by data brokers depends on companies that have frequently failed to follow privacy law already on the books, new research from Stanford University suggests. More than 600 companies…

California’s new privacy system depends on data brokers with a poor record of following the law: Stanford research

Stanford researchers found widespread privacy-law compliance failures among data brokers now required to delete Californians’ personal information.

California wants to help delete your data, but brokers are already resisting

California’s new, first-of-its-kind “DROP” program enabling residents to have personal information deleted by data brokers depends on companies that have frequently failed to follow privacy law already on the books, new research from Stanford University suggests. More than 600 companies…