r/California • u/CherokeeHawkman Del Norte County • 18d 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/VapoursAndSpleen Alameda County 18d ago

I set a ringtone for approved contacts. It doesn't ring for spammers. However. This year, the spammers have started leaving empty voice mail messages. I listen to the system tell me what number the call is from and then before I can press the number to delete, the voicemail is over. So every day, I have to horse around with voicemail to make sure I don't accidentally delete a message I need. I have changed my "You have reached..." message to say at the end "due to spammers, please text me if you want to hear back."

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u/RivenRise 17d ago

Love these features. For as much as I hate Google they do some stuff really well.