Study finds that the CCPA needs stronger enforcement but “authorized agents” like DoNotPay can make it much easier for consumers to opt out of data collection
Kaveh Waddell / Consumer Reports : Tweets: @cradvocacy , @jbrowder1 , @pennywriter , @mxmahoney5 , @cradvocacy , and @stephtngu Tweets: @cradvocacy : CR's Digital Lab signed up 124 volunteers to see how easy it would be for Californians to use CR as an authorized agent. CR's authorized agents issued legally valid opt-outs to 21 companies on their behalf. https://www.consumerreports.org/ ... Joshua Browder / @jbrowder1 : Every day, DoNotPay sends thousands of deletion requests to data brokers, stopping consumer data from reaching law enforcement, political campaigns and marketers. Great to see us mentioned in this @ConsumerReports study on the ways they try and stop us! https://www.consumerreports.org/ ... Penelope Wang / @pennywriter : A new California law gives consumers the right to tell companies to stop selling their personal data. In practice, it's pretty hard to do @kavehwaddell https://www.consumerreports.org/ ... Maureen Mahoney / @mxmahoney5 : We've been doing a ton of work to help consumers exercise their CCPA privacy rights - including by opting them out of data sales on their behalf (with their permission). Check out what we found! https://www.consumerreports.org/ ... @cradvocacy : 🧵 How easy is it for Californians to opt-out of their online data being collected or sold? We put CA's privacy law (#CCPA) to the test. See our new study: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/ ... Stephanie T. Nguyen / @stephtngu : .@CRAdvocacy worked with 124 consumers to ask 21 companies (Starbucks, Equifax, Oracle) to stop selling their personal information, building a stronger case for ‘authorized agents’. Congrats @ginnyfahs @mxmahoney5 @dmarti who led this great research! https://www.consumerreports.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...