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Californians will be able to delete all personal online data with first-in-US law
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Can I take a trip to California and do this or is there some way your residence is determined? I’m about to go to sleep so I don’t want to read the article!
I work in an adjacent industry. Establishing "is this person actually a resident of X" is really hard. It's much easier to just allow everyone to submit CPPA/CPRA requests.
So that's what everybody does.
Just because it's only required in CA doesn't mean you won't be able to make use of it!
Edit: At the start of 2023 the CPRA already established that CA residents (which really became anybody) can request their data be deleted. It looks like this new bill just mandates a central location to transmit those requests out to everybody from.
There are already services that do this (The article mentions Delete Me) for a fee. This is going to eat their lunch, but is going to be a major win for privacy!
You don't even need to go there. You can just claim to be a resident and most companies won't actually bother to check. This is why when the EU passed GDPR, most companies just gave all users GDPR rights.
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I worked on a CCPA project in a non CCPA state for a big media company. Company's lawyers just wanted to make it so if anyone applied we complied, its cheaper in terms of labor to build it out and comply.