California

California appears in California’s one-stop shop for data brokers to delete consumers’ data as the state launching the [[DeleteRequestAndOptOutPlatform|DROP]] data-broker deletion tool under the California Delete Act. The episode frames the state as filling part of a national privacy-policy gap by giving residents a single place to request deletion from registered data brokers.

The California case complements Montana’s role in How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data. Montana is used as a warrant-requirement example for closing the Data Broker Loophole in government purchases; California is used as a consumer-agency example for reducing broker-held data before it can be sold, reused, or targeted.

Connections

• [[DeleteRequestAndOptOutPlatform|DROP]] and California Delete Act - state platform and law.
• Consumer Data Deletion - consumer-side privacy mechanism.
• Data Broker Loophole, Government Data Broker Access, and Platform Data Regulation - broader data-governance branch.
• Montana - contrasting state-level privacy implementation from the March 2 Marketplace Tech source.