All you need to do is send them more personal data to confirm it is really you. Then they will delete it all, promise.

More data collection should be opt in only from the start but at least this is something

Lol. No, they can't. They can request that their data be deleted in one request. They can't actually go delete the data from all the servers and backups from all those websites and companies. They can't verify that anyone else has done that. They can't verify that even if they theoretically have it doesn't work like the systems where things are just flagged as redacted or edited out.

For the statement they make to be true this would a thing with an overseeing body with enough power to ensure that all companies and websites store their data in the same way or with perfect knowledge and access to that data and all backups and the ability to fully wipe any data or backup data tied to a given name, email address, social security number, and whatever selection of browser and device fingerprints the user could supply and ensure that data was unrecoverable.

I can make something way better than this. Since any folk requesting that are concerned with places keeping their data, they wouldn't even have to give their name let alone any other personal information. It would just be a very pleasing and official looking button, and when they click it there would be a reassuring popup informing them that:

"Success! Your request for every other person, company, website, UFO, talking animal, or fantasy creature who may be spying on you in this entire universe and any potential alternate universe to immediately stop doing that and delete any information they may have collected has been sent!"

It would be pretty much just as effective and universally (multiversally?) legally relevant as this is.

tl;dr: Lol

I don't think this is quite as easy as everyone thinks. They do this in Tennessee but it only works for situations that almost never apply.

How about shipping them from gathering the data to begin with?

Because I guarafuckingtee you that those deletion promises are exactly that: promises. They'll tag your data as "deleted" and simply continue using it anyway

watchout for actually enforcing this

Here is my question.

How does this affect LLMs. Because as I understand it, once they are trained, you cannot just, "deletr the data out."

I'm looking for a job. I'm pretty sure it won't make a difference if I just post my CV publicly on Facebook or CraigsList at this point. Seeing how many AI rejections I have gotten, I'm sure every major tech company knows all my details by now.

laughs in European

Link to said website, anyone?

In the future, please provide an archive link or a link backing up the statment: https://cppa.ca.gov/announcements/2025/20251113.html

Edit: Rule 7

And they absolutely won't just collect it again...

Now do the other 50 States!

Werent they few months before going for age verification on OS?

How about passing a law that makes it illegal to sell any of someone's data without express written consent for each sale.

Something I never see mentioned in discussions about privacy and "deleting your data": all of these websites store information in databases, and databases are (usually) backed up on a regular schedule. This means that the databases in their entirety are written to tape or optical drive or whatever format, in a form where they could be remounted/restored in their entirety if necessary. Even if your data is "deleted" from the current active instance of a database, no company goes into all (or any) of the backed-up copies of that database to delete that same data there (and even when you delete something from the current active instance of a database, the deletions are logged in the audit tables and so are never truly "deleted").

So it is impossible in a practical sense to truly delete your personal data, regardless of what any law says. It's not even possible to make it inaccessible to AI, since most likely when websites sell their data to AI companies, they are selling database backups that predate AI.

How about letting me sell my own data for my own financial gain. That way I can sell the parts of my life I want to sell

Why is this in programmer humour?

Why is this funny?

Thread locked because it's off-topic to our community. (Although there were some interesting discussions, thanks.)

Grant Certiorari

Nice lawyer joke there.

Truly hilarious

At this point I'm seriously considering just running something like openclaw with a basic model to just keep clicking on random stuff and browsing the internet, changing personalities each day at random, to flood my IPs data.

Yeah, that's never getting deleted - it just sets a flag that 'this account is more interesting'