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Babel Street, the firm selling data to the IRS, seems to say they don't have to follow the California CCPA requirements around data access or data deletion. Th
by varenc 5y ago
Babel Street, the firm selling data to the IRS, seems to say they don't have to follow the California CCPA requirements around data access or data deletion. Their only mention of CCPA is obtuse but implies it's their customers' responsibility: https://www.babelstreet.com/privacy-policy https://www.babelstreet.com/privacy-policy
My understanding was that if a company has my personal data and is selling it, the CCPA requires that they allow me to put in a request to access that data or delete it. Babel Street seems to be saying that it's their customers who needs to follow these requirements not them.
Is this legit? Tons of other big sketchy personal data brokers actually allow you to access and delete your data under the CCPA even though they have the same customer arrangement. Acxiom for example: https://www.acxiom.com/data-privacy-ethics/california-consumer-privacy-act/for-consumers/ https://www.acxiom.com/data-privacy-ethics/california-consum...
- judge2020 5y agoCCPA calls these companies data brokers[0], which are still subject to the CCPA. They might be acting facetious in saying that, since you'd usually have to also go to their customers to get your data deleted in addition to asking them for deletion [as in, they don't have to inform their customers to delete the data]. > Data brokers are subject to the CCPA. On the Data Broker Registry website, you will find contact information and a website link for each registered data broker, as well as additional information to help you exercise your CCPA rights. 0: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiong https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectiong
- varenc 5y agoWas genuinely curious. Thanks for the info. Of course Babel Street isn’t listed in the official CCPA Data Broker registry: https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers So by not allowing me to access and delete my data on Babel Street, it seems like they are in violation of the CCPA? What’s my recourse? Anyone interested in privacy who can claim California residency should be interested too!