New tool aims to help you cut spam and shield your ID amid ‘privacy crisis’

California residents can now harness a new power to protect their data and halt data brokers from selling personal info online. 

“Scammers can buy this information. Stalkers can buy this information. ICE can buy this information,” Peninsula State Senator Josh Becker said. “We have a privacy crisis.” 

Becker led the charge to change state law and create DROP, California’s new “Delete Request and Optout Platform.”

Becker called DROP a “one-stop shop.” He said, “you put your information in once and you delete your information from over 500 data brokers.”

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