I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead

The author filed over 100 California Consumer Privacy Act access requests, receiving a 515-page data report from McDonald’s and encountering widespread mishandling, including firms mistakenly treating the requests as deletion orders. Companies such as Crunchbase and BeenVerified responded with erroneous deletions or refusal to follow their own privacy-policy procedures, prompting criticism from privacy advocates about the law’s reliance on corporate good-faith compliance.