alt Hacker News> Before submitting a deletion request, you will be required to verify you are a California “resident,” as defined in section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations as that section read on September 1, 2017. Verification is made with assistance from state contracted third-party vendors, including Socure and Login.gov, through the California Identity Gateway.
I'm seeing a problem here...
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Ah California.
This is a very good example of the difference between a left policy and a liberal policy (actually neoliberal to be precise).
The left policy would have been to have some agency within the california government which ultimately does the verification... because why would you outsource that task to a 3rd party?
The neoliberal policy is "Well, we don't want to spend the time to set this up, so let's just pay 10 companies with some taxpayer money to do the job we really should do ourselves".
No shit. All data brokery is a poison pill to justify itself. Until you illegalize the entire damn endeavor, it'll find a way to justify it's own existence through malicious compliance.
No, see they are unhackable because they are government contractors. /s
It really depends on the quality (strenght of the teeth, willingness to use it) of the regulator here; we have a lot of similar situation in EU/France and it's always a case that either it creates a new right or it creates a moat, depending on the enforcer.