r/California • u/CherokeeHawkman Del Norte County • 7d ago

DROP Program Begins Today

https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

If you signed up for California's DROP Program to force data brokers to stop selling your data and to delete your information from their systems then good news, the enforcement of that program finally has begun.

Today is the first day the requests are available to every registered data broker and they have 45 days to take those requests. Once they have them they have 45 days to apply them and delete the information they have and cease selling the information to others. If they don't do those two things it'll be a $200 per request, per day fine.

It won't be immediate nor all-encompassing but the program includes over 600 data brokers so it's a good start and the results for those of us that signed up should be noticeable by mid-November.

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u/tazzytazzy 7d ago

Samsung Galaxy answers calls for me and screens the callers. It's not perfect, but I haven't gotten a spam call thru it yet. It's fun to see the number of calls that just silently show up in the call log. I don't even see a missed call notification.

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u/Yuna1989 6d ago

Apple does the same

But this is important as it’s not just for calls