There's a 'Wild Disparity' in How Companies Interpret the CCPA's Effectiveness

While CCPA has elevated the public conversation around privacy and information rights, metrics like data deletion requests may be largely inconsequential to tracking the law's overall effectiveness.

August 19, 2021 at 12:30 PM

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Privacy

Frank Ready

Results, as they say, may vary. Politico published a report earlier this month examining the data privacy request disclosures that companies are required to make under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which showed large variances in the number of data deletion petitions received by major tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Google.