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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
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
lapublicpress.org/2026/07/data-broker-california-drop/Replying to @beep@piefed.world
the real question is; how will one be able to verify that the data has indeed been deleted?
“Would you like to check our database for your personal data? Please fill out this form with your personal data.”
Replying to @13igTyme@piefed.social
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 🤔
Fucking genius.
Replying to @13igTyme@piefed.social
I seriously doubt 75% of password strength checkers for that very reason.