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Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by EA-3167 »

amazingamazing wrote: post #19
millerm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because someone commenting leads to others spending time and effort responding. Deleting the comment breaks the chain. Don't comment if you feel that it's something you might want to delete. Think of commenting as like sending an email, but you get a short window to delete in this place.

Do you believe the same about search results not being able to be deleted? I also assume this means you disagree with gdpr?

Do you not see the difference between a person volunteering to broadcast a post, vs a bird party scraping the web to index it for searching?

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by cyanregiment »

petilon wrote: post #8

I hope other states adopt this. One of the biggest mistakes I have made is giving my real phone number to Dun & Bradstreet. Now the spam calls and messages (from people they sold my info to) won't stop. I don't want to change my phone number.

Out of curiosity, did you do this as part of Android's awful app submission process

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by connicpu »

MrZander wrote: post #7

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how this is enforceable for a company not based in California? Can CA fine a data broker that is based in another state but that is selling CA residents' information?

The company would have to not have any interstate presence at all. If you are a business based in the united states that has customers in California, you are easily reachable under California law.

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by amazingamazing »

EA-3167 wrote: post #21
amazingamazing wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you believe the same about search results not being able to be deleted? I also assume this means you disagree with gdpr?

Do you not see the difference between a person volunteering to broadcast a post, vs a bird party scraping the web to index it for searching?

You believe volunteered information must stay on internet forever?

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by dwattttt »

unstatusthequo wrote: post #5

The Advertising ID field/ Nice of them to think of this, but it doesn't seem that I could actually get this from any of my Samsung TVs, Apple devices, apps?, etc? So while that field is nice and all, without transparency on getting the ad ID, those fields kind of do nothing.

Google TV surfaces this under settings (along with the ability to regenerate it, or remove it)

EDIT: Android also surfaces this information more generally, I just found it under More Privacy Settings -> Ads

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by testing22321 »

altairprime wrote: post #18
testing22321 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it’s utterly useless, because your username and all comments get THE SAME random user ID. So once someone identifies that ID as you, it does nothing. When I asked dang to do better after me and my family got death threats online, dang told me “tough luck” To this day thousands of my comments from my old username are on this site and trivially east to link to my real name. (Links to my website, etc)

My first BBS handle was my full real name, and I barely managed to purge myself from DejaNews before Google bought it, so I empathize. The modern internet has been a severe learning experience and, given how many replicas of HN exist, the cat is well out of the bag. Teach others to be more careful, as I do.

100%

In 2012 when I started commenting here I had no idea it would lead to death threats and I’d have a two year old daughter.

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by metalcrow »

connicpu wrote: post #24
MrZander wrote: post #7

Out of curiosity, does anyone know how this is enforceable for a company not based in California? Can CA fine a data broker that is based in another state but that is selling CA residents' information?

The company would have to not have any interstate presence at all. If you are a business based in the united states that has customers in California, you are easily reachable under California law.

Curious, how so?

Re: Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

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Post by EA-3167 »

amazingamazing wrote: post #25
EA-3167 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not see the difference between a person volunteering to broadcast a post, vs a bird party scraping the web to index it for searching?

You believe volunteered information must stay on internet forever?

If you knew those were the conditions when you joined? Yes.
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