Emily Cohen

California peeps! I’m starting the New Year requesting my data be deleted from being sold to commercial entities. It’s easy to do on California.gov. “Use a loyalty card at a drug store, browse the web, post on social media, get married or do anything else most people do, and chances are companies called data brokers know about it — along with your email address, your phone number, where you live and virtually everywhere you go.

But starting Jan. 1, under the state’s first-in-the-nation Delete Act, Californians can reduce the information brokers can gather and sell.” @mercnews