California, which already has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S., is on the verge of handing consumers a major new tool to combat the sale and secret use of personal information they may never have agreed to share.
SACRAMENTO -- You may not know it, but thousands of often shadowy companies routinely traffic in personal data you probably never agreed to share — everything from your real-time location information to private financial details. Even if you could identify these data brokers, there isn't much you can do about their activities, even in California, which has some of the strongest digital privacy laws in the U.S.
The Delete Act isn't law yet; it still needs to pass a second vote in the state Senate, after which its fate is up to Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat who hasn't said whether he'll sign it. But if enacted, its impact could extend well beyond state lines given California's history of setting trends of this sort.
That's not to mention"information on an individual's purchases, where they shop, and how they pay for their purchases," plus"health information, the sites we visit online, and the advertisements we click on. And thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and wearables, data brokers collect and sell real-time location data."
That CDIA official, Dan Smith, also argued that the heart of the bill — the one-stop data deletion program — could potentially allow malicious outsiders to impersonate consumers and delete their data without permission, although he didn't explain what a third party might have to gain by deleting a consumer's data without permission. WHAT ABUSE OF DATA BROKER INFORMATION LOOKS LIKE
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