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Bipartisan Bill Plans To Force Data Brokers To Delete Your Private Info When Requested
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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Yay, we could get the same protections Europeans already have. I hope it passes.
This would be great, because it would "validate" GDPR.
Data protection requests would be more likely to be planned-for and succeed if users didn't have to say/prove they were an EU citizen.
Certainly, as a UK citizen who has these protections, but not specifically GDPR, it can be difficult leverage these rights.
More countries adopting these kind of laws will hopefully resolve into a global standard of "right to be forgotten", as long as it doesn't collapse into an XKCD#927 scenario (https://xkcd.com/927)
The California Consumer Protection Act could be useful for other states to make their own equivalents. Or push the Federal Government to make one.
A number of US states went live with similar laws at the beginning of this year, and they do seem to be effective.