So @mxmahoney5's @CRAdvocacy report on how data brokers are "respecting" the #CCPA is mandatory reading for @PrivacyPros: https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/consumer-reports-study-finds-significant-obstacles-to-exercising-california-privacy-rights/

The anecdotes that Consumer Reports uses from, you know, actual consumers are both depressing and charming. Techno-babble is endemic in Privacyland:

Privacy policies don't protect consumers and are generally impossible to read. Not shocked to learn data brokers are the worst on both metrics:

Not sure what wires @xmodesocial got crossed here, but usually people who spend the energy thinking about their privacy don't want marketing emails:

Like really guys? C'mon!

So @snowjake has a good thread on the report -- and yeah, let's place bets on how many of those named data brokers add their own hard-to-use DNS sell link by week's end: https://twitter.com/snowjake/status/1311683782617907202?s=20

This report highlights the basic problem with privacy laws that are premised on more transparency and more control. Average people end up choking on all the new info and options they've given...