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If you live in California you can now tell data brokers to delete your personal information. Here’s how to do it (lapublicpress.org)
submitted 8 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1303874/if-you-live-in-california-you-can-now-tell-data-brokers-to-delete-your-personal-informat

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[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Would you like to check our database for your personal data? Please fill out this form with your personal data."

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Reminds of that website some guy created where you had to type in your credit card details to find out if someone had your credit card details 🤔

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Fucking genius.