California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers::The California legislature passed the Delete Act, which is designed to streamline consumers’ ability to request the deletion of their personal information…

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not even possible to really remove your data. Databases are backed up and archived regularly - when companies get requests to delete a particular user’s data, they’re not going back and re-mounting old backups to delete the data from all backups, so the data will still exist somewhere.