What rights do residents of California have?
If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives you the following rights: The right to know about the personal data a business collects and how it is used The right to have that information deleted The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information The right to non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights As of 2023, residents have the following additional rights: The right to correct inaccurate personal information that a business has about them The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected You can make any requests to Whitepages by filling out an online form or sending an email to ccparequests@whitepages.com. If you’re wondering whether Californians use their new-won rights, the answer is yes. According to the Whitepages site, the company was asked to refrain from selling residents’ personal data 19,317 times in 2022, and received 8,738 deletion requests in the same year.