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Hundreds of registered data brokers ignore user requests around personal data

researchers exercised their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act by contacting all registered data brokers and requesting details about the t data the companies had collected on them. Of the 543 companies contacted, 40% failed to respond in any way, showing “rampant noncompliance” among the registered brokers.

#CCPA #data #bigdata #databrokers #privacy #infosec #technology #tech

cyberscoop.com/data-brokers-ca

CyberScoop · Hundreds of registered data brokers ignore user requests around personal dataBy Derek B. Johnson

I'm working on a new app and thinking about #data portability. This got me thinking: what are the forever file formats? Say its 50-100 years in the future, what file types can we still open and access without a lot of headache? Probably .txt, pdf, png, jpeg. Anything else?