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Hundreds of registered data brokers ignore user requests around personal data

researchers exercised their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act by contacting all registered data brokers and requesting details about the t data the companies had collected on them. Of the 543 companies contacted, 40% failed to respond in any way, showing “rampant noncompliance” among the registered brokers.

#CCPA #data #bigdata #databrokers #privacy #infosec #technology #tech

cyberscoop.com/data-brokers-ca

CyberScoop · Hundreds of registered data brokers ignore user requests around personal dataBy Derek B. Johnson

🔍 Think companies can collect & sell your data without your say? Think again.

Under CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), you have rights:
✅ Request your data be deleted
✅ See what companies have collected about you
✅ Opt out of data sales

📌 Even if you’re not in California, CCPA may still protect you. Start using your rights today.

@praveen

> The TOS applies to only official binaries from (#)mozilla

This is not true:

"Mozilla grants you a personal, non-exclusive license to install and use the “Executable Code" version of the Firefox web browser, which is the ready-to-run version of Firefox from an authorized source that you can open and use right away."

Debian is an "authorized source", as they use official #Firefox branding and #Mozilla has explicitly approved the distro's usage of their trademarks in the past.

> they have clarified the language

There was no confusion from the community (this is textbook gaslighting by Mozilla). The only good change to the ToU that came was the removal of the AUP from the Firefox terms as well as the explicit disclaiming of ownership over content uploaded via Firefox, but they're not enough. Mozilla Corp still has an unnecessary license over content uploaded via/inputted in Firefox, and the promise to never sell users' data is still withdrawn despite already complying with the #CCPA before the withdrawal.

@tuxmain

While #mozilla may have backed off from their over-broad rights grant for information posted via #firefox the underlying rationale for why the change is happening now continues to be unclear.

Many seem to think that this has to do with #california #ccpa - as I was exploring that, I took a deeper dive into Mozilla's new #privacy policy.

My takeaway?

It appears that Mozilla may have been sharing more data with Mozilla's ad partners than you expected: quippd.com/social/posts/2025/0

Asif Youssuff · Who else is surprised that Mozilla uses “technical and interaction data” for advertising purposes on the New Tab Page?Mozilla’s legal updates from last week are the gift that keep on giving. Take a look at the table below (extracted from the Firefox Privacy Notice):

The #California #Privacy Protection Agency is #hiring a "Research Technologist - Enforcement Division" to, among other things, "research privacy-related business practices to support investigations and enforcement actions"

(please, one of my followers on here go get this job. So many #CCPA and #CPRA violations out there, this will be a much more rewarding use of your skills than #growthHacking and #darkPatterns)

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The #adtech "industry has never really questioned the notion that #1to1marketing is a worthy goal. Rather than learn the lessons of the consumer rebellion that led to #GDPR, #CCPA, and countless other regulations, we are embarking on a new style of #consumerspying based on a new set of private signals. Today we are leveraging those signals to bully people into buying stuff they don’t need as well as instill in them irrational fears in order to prompt them to support anti-democracy candidates."