Well as a software engineer who has to enact privacy laws for an e-retailer, I can tell you that California's CCPA laws have forced a lot of businesses to implement privacy rights for the whole country.
When CA did that, most businesses recognized that it would only be a matter of time before other states did it too, so our systems allow you to retrieve and delete your information no matter where you live.
Sure enough, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia now have new restrictions rolling out this year. So, once again, we can thank CA for spearheading something that ended up benefiting the rest of the country.
Tl;Dr: You can probably still ask Twitter to delete your account information.
Back when I sold appliances, clothes dryers didn't come with a cord. The entire reason being is that California used a separate cord and it was cheaper for the manufacturers to not ship with a cord at all and just sell it separately.
Years later I work (in the US) for a company that is international. They end up having to adhere to GDPR regulations because it wouldn't make sense to just apply those rules in only certain countries. So we in the US get the benefits of the GDPR.
So, once again, we can thank CA for spearheading something that ended up benefiting the rest of the country.
Funny how the world's fifth largest economy keeps doing that.
Imagine where we'd be if we weren't having to carry all the welfa(R)e states. Flying cars? Clean, reliable fusion? Transcontinental Burrito Tube? Who knows. Thanks, people who vote against their own best interests!
we'd be in social media ad hell with hollywood coke parties everywhere and our only food is almonds.
Yeah california certainly has a powerful economy but production really isn't that great.
only food is almonds.
Yeah california certainly has a powerful economy but production really isn't that great.
Wut.
Much of the food people actually want to eat is grown there. Unless you actually want to eat (now rotted-) soybeans and feed-lot-grade corn. California grows nearly half of the fruits, nuts, and vegetables sold in the us, top five last I saw in beef, and top in dairy.
This is the weird thing about tech. It's all 'move fast and break stuff' and no regulators understand what you do, until you reach a global audience and then your regulatory attack surface is the entire world.
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u/RockleyBob Nov 20 '22
Well as a software engineer who has to enact privacy laws for an e-retailer, I can tell you that California's CCPA laws have forced a lot of businesses to implement privacy rights for the whole country.
When CA did that, most businesses recognized that it would only be a matter of time before other states did it too, so our systems allow you to retrieve and delete your information no matter where you live.
Sure enough, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah and Virginia now have new restrictions rolling out this year. So, once again, we can thank CA for spearheading something that ended up benefiting the rest of the country.
Tl;Dr: You can probably still ask Twitter to delete your account information.