> Introduced by State Assembly member Ed Chau and state senator Robert Hertzberg, the bill would allow California residents to find out what information businesses and data brokers collect about them, where that information comes from, and how it's shared. It would give people the power to ask for their data to be deleted and to order businesses to stop selling their personal information. It places limits on selling data on users younger than 16 years of age, and prohibits businesses from denying service to users for exercising their rights under the bill.<p>This is fantastic.<p>I've been trying to opt out of as many data brokers as I can. It's a huge amount of work and many of them try to make the process as painful as possible (since, IIRC, there's no law compelling them to provide and opt-out, so it's just a courtesy).<p>I really wish there was some kind of national data-broker opt-out system where you could register your preferences, which the brokers would then be required to honor [1].<p>[1] I'm thinking of something like a blinded service where the broker sends the PII and gets a response back with usage restrictions (e.g. no people-search, do not share with 3rd parties, etc.).