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Ask HN: What Does the California Consumer Privacy Act Do for Me?
I understand the act goes into effect Jan 1, 2020. What can I now ask companies for or to do?
- mtmail 7y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac... "The intentions of the Act are to provide California residents with the right to: * Know what personal data is being collected about them. * Know whether their personal data is sold or disclosed and to whom. * Say no to the sale of personal data. * Access their personal data. * Request a business to delete any personal information about a consumer collected from that consumer. * Not be discriminated against for exercising their privacy rights." If it's anything like the GDPR you can send a letter asking for a print-out of all personal data. And request it gets deleted. Note that financial transaction must be retained based on other laws (tax law) so companies can't delete everything. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-request-your-personal-data-under-gdpr/ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-request-your-per...