New California Legislation Could Hit Backspace on Data Brokers

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Details about your children, yearly income, medical conditions, hopes, fears, exercise habits, race, religion, sexuality—all this and more is for sale right now onnline. A bill called the California Delete Act would let you say 'please stop' once and for all.

if you take time to ask for it. However, they don’t have to delete the data that they get from other companies. The difference, the loophole Becker is talking about, is

significant, because that’s where most of their data comes from. Data brokers currently have to register with the state’s Attorney General, but the Delete Act would also force them to disclose information about what kind of data they have. Becker wraps the Delete Act up with a cute little privacy bow that spells out consequences too, enshrining civil penalties and administrative fines for lawbreaking data bad boys.life like a barrel of oil, a commodity that can be traded and sold to boost corporate profits. Data-if we want the internet to be glorious and free. That’s only half true, at best.

In the data broker business in particular, you get nothing out of the exchange. You’ve probably never heard of most of these companies, and they have no direct connection to your life as a consumer. They just help other businesses suck more profits out of you, using information about your life that you don’t even know is on the open market.,” said a straw man I invented to repeat argument I’m tired of hearing. “I’ve got nothing to hide.” Stop it.

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