# Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

- Type: News
- Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: 2026-07-20
- Original: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/what-you-need-know-about-californias-drop-tool
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/144025

## Summary

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. Here are som

## Full text

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. (That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, if you're fancy). This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information. Here are some things to know about DROP. (Don’t want all the details and want to just learn how to file a request? Skip to this section.) What does a request do? Filing a request on the DROP will send a request to delete and opt-out of sale to all the data brokers in California's registry. Data brokers are companies that collect information about people, repackage that information, and sell it. As of time of writing, a single DROP request reaches 614 brokers. After August 1, once data brokers receive a requ

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