The California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) announced at last week’s Board meeting that the California Office of Administrative Law has approved regulations to further implement the Delete Act.
The new regulations, which take effect January 1, 2026, describe how Californians can submit a delete request through CalPrivacy’s new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) and how data brokers must retrieve and process these requests.
The DROP will be a first-of-its-kind, state-hosted website where consumers can request deletion of all personal information held by multiple data brokers with a single click. California consumers will be able to submit delete requests through the DROP starting January 2026.
Starting August 1, 2026, data brokers must access the DROP at least every 45 days to retrieve and process consumer deletion requests. If a consumer’s information matches the data broker’s records, the data broker must delete all associated personal data—including inferences—unless a legal exemption applies. Data brokers must report the status of each deletion request in the DROP within 45 days of retrieving it. The regulations require data brokers to maintain a list of all deletion requests to ensure that consumer personal information remains deleted into the future.
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How do I fake proving I live in California?
How would this interact with flock cameras?
Note the date of this article: “November 13, 2025”
So these regulations are already in effect as of this year. The DROP portal is at https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/ and has additional information on the regulation.
This is clear infringement on the basic right of people* to remember.
What next, the government is going to start mandating I forget about all the times I was paid by my employer so that I become a radical??
*people refers to corporations here, see Citizens United
