Privacy professionals are expressing concern over their ability to comply with California’s first-in-the-nation legislation that would grant consumers a one-stop site to delete all their personal data collected by data brokers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) must act by Oct. 14 on the measure (S.B. 362) that will affect firms that amass and sell data to companies for purposes like identify verification or market research.
Lawyers, company executives, and others discussed the measure on Friday at the International Association of Privacy Professionals conference in San Diego, especially potential obstacles in complying with the bill that has been opposed by data-collection firms …