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It's absolutely worth requesting your data to be deleted regardless of where you live by claiming to live in California. I always provide the address of a post office in Cali as my address when requesting deletion.
I do think it's possible that some of them won't delete your data upon request, failing to comply with the law, but I also think a lot of people on the internet are unduly influenced by doomers who want you to feel powerless and do nothing.
It's absolutely worth requesting your data to be deleted regardless of where you live by claiming to live in California...
I do think it's possible that some of them won't delete your data upon request, failing to comply with the law
That's not failure to comply with the law if you don't actually live in California.
People have a legal location of residence in the US.
If you want to establish legal residency in a state, you're typically looking at doing something like spending the majority of the year there.
EDIT: I'd also be pretty confident, though the article doesn't talk about it, that California won't normally have jurisdiction for California state law unless a data broker is doing business in California, and that that will also be a constraining factor. Like, if a data broker company is only doing business in, say, Russia, the US will not enforce rulings against them regarding California state law in general.
I guess I should have said EVEN* failing to comply with the law, you caught me out on some pedantry, I admit it and concede
And they will definitely actually totally for sure do it!
they pinky promise 😂
the real question is; how will one be able to verify that the data has indeed been deleted?
"Would you like to check our database for your personal data? Please fill out this form with your personal data."
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 🤔
If you live anywhere, you can tell data brokers to delete your data. Will they, whether they're in California or not?
Please just link to the original source...