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California DROP Enforcement Hits Aug. 1: Data Brokers Face $200-Per-Day Fines
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Fusion42 · 9 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
California's DROP platform enforces the DELETE Act starting August 1, 2026, requiring 600+ data brokers to process 260,000+ deletion requests with $200-per-day-per-consumer penalties; the law mandates erasure of algorithmic inferences (behavioral profiles, vulnerability scores), not just PII, directly targeting data brokers' highest-value product.
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Founders in data enrichment, marketing data, fintech risk scoring, and consumer-profile-dependent verticals must audit inference-generation pipelines and suppression-list integration before August 1; the law eliminates the commercial value of derived behavioral/vulnerability profiles, not just raw PII.
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