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ONME NEWS WATCH (5-31-26): California unveils ‘DROP’ tool to help residents delete data-broker profiles with one request
<b>As Californians spend a lot of time online, they may not realize how vulnerable they are to data breaches, say experts</b><br /><br />California’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, or DROP, gives residents a free, centralized way to tell hundreds of registered data brokers to delete their personal information and stop selling it, as state officials warn that identity theft, scams and large-scale data breaches continue to expose millions of Californians to risk.For years, privacy advocates have argued that one of the biggest gaps in consumer protection was not whether Californians had privacy rights on pa...





