California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating Data Brokers

From iapp, Alex LaCasse, Senate Bill 362, which has been signed fixes a loophole in the California Consumer Privacy Act.

the Delete Act would empower the CPPA to develop a system by 2026 that allows residents to make a single data deletion request across the nearly 500 registered data brokers operating in the state

They should put it into effect today! In fact this should be federal. And not just data brokers, but social media sites should have to delete on request and should not be able to sell your data.

The Conversation on Meta Charging European users to remove ads is a privacy red herring

This article on it from the conversation is very interesting, as all Meta is doing is not showing you adds, they are still selling you data, which is insane.

If only congress wasn’t so corrupted by their “campaign contributions” from big business so that they actually made laws that protect their constituents, then we could have actual privacy, and actually have consumer protections.

9to5Mac on Felix Krause’s article on in app-browsers like those in Facebook and Instagram are a big privacy risk

Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has this very interesting article on in-app browsers in Facebook and Instagram, where the companies insert javascript into the page and can literally see everything you do and type including passwords.

It comes from this article by Felix Krause.

Honestly the only thing I see that could help this if Apple put a stop to this. And honestly from a privacy perspective this should not be allowed by law, but congress is too technologically incompetent to ever understand something like this.

And I like that the article includes code you can put into your web site to trick META into thinking it has already inserted it’s code.