California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing
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The California Consumer Privacy Act, signed in 2018, gave Californians the right to send opt-out signals, but major browsers have not had to make opt-outs simple to use.
  • RustyShackleford@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    5 hours ago

    I can’t wait for the lawsuits, when we discover over 60% of the companies didn’t respect the request and still gathered our data. Then we all get our checks for $3.50 and a year’s worth of free credit monitoring… /s

    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      At this rate we’ll have free credit monitoring for life! Will it help when it detects someone used your sensitive information to take out a huge loan in your name? Fuck no! They’ll just tell you it happened and that you should do something about it.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Credit monitoring, offered through the credit scoring companies who started collecting all of your personal info without your knowledge or consent, and then constantly have data breaches due to their own laziness, greed and incompetence.