On November 18, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) announced the creation of a Data Broker Enforcement Strike Force within its Enforcement Division to ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to remind Californians that they can send one ...

Ford Motor Co. agreed to pay a $375,703 fine to California’s privacy agency and make it easier for consumers to request that the company stops selling their personal data.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting Jan. 1, Californians can request the removal of their personal information from online platforms. The new Delete Request ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. California regulators have issued more than $2 million ...

California has quietly handed its residents a powerful new privacy weapon, a centralized system that lets people tell hundreds of data brokers to erase their personal details with a single request.

The so-called Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, known as DROP, will go live Jan 1, 2026. The system has been in the works since September 2023, when lawmakers mandated its creation by passing the ...

This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: Building the foundation for customer data quality. Data is critical to running a modern business — enterprises simply can’t ...

California has quietly flipped the script on data brokers, turning what used to be a tedious, site-by-site slog into a single state-run portal where residents can demand mass deletion of their ...

Effective January 1, 2026, many of California’s newly enacted artificial intelligence (AI) regulations took effect. The more than 20 new AI ...

The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states ...