The California Privacy Protection Agency’s board approved final regulations Friday that will establish a one-stop mechanism for state residents to more easily delete their personal data held by data brokers.
The first-in-the-nation rules detail how the state’s roughly 500 data brokers — companies that amass and sell personal data — comply with deletion requests once the tool launches next year. The tool is a result of the 2023 Delete Act, which offers Californians a single form to delete all their personal data instead of making the request to every broker. Vermont and Illinois lawmakers have considered similar policies as scrutiny ...