The California Privacy Protection Agency’s board voted Friday to start rulemaking on draft regulations that will establish a one-stop mechanism for state residents to more easily delete personal data held by data brokers.
The first-in-the-nation rules would detail how the state’s roughly 500 data brokers — companies that amass and sell personal data — comply with deletion requests once the tool launches next year. The board is likely to adopt final regulations later this year.
The action follows enactment of the 2023 Delete Act, which offers state residents a single form to delete all their personal data instead of making ...