This is great! Thank you for your hard work. On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:14 PM Don Marti <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm posting to share the results of an experiment to test the authorized > agent provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act. (Authorized Agent > makes the CCPA's opt-out-based system practical -- without an agent, it > would take you 33 hours to opt out of the 400 registered data brokers in > California if you spent 5 minutes on each one!) > > In October, we identified over a hundred volunteers in California and > asked them to sign a simple permission letter designating CR as their > authorized agent. Then we sent “Do Not Sell” or “opt-out” requests to > various companies on consumers’ behalf. > > We found that agent opt-out handling by companies could use some > work...but 4 of the companies tested have since improved their processes. > > More info and a link to the full report are here: > > > https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/consumer-reports-study-finds-authorized-agents-can-empower-people-to-exercise-their-digital-privacy-rights-in-california/ > > This is the first of many authorized agent experiments we are devising, > and we hope to continue collaborating to make authorized agents more > practical and accessible for consumers. Next steps may include access and > deletion agents that will require more identity verification. > > Happy to answer questions about the project. > > -- > Don Marti <[email protected]> > https://blog.zgp.org/ > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected]. -- Sahar Massachi [email protected] https://sahar.io P.S. What I'm doing now: https://sahar.io/now
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