How the free DELETE Act filing works
One filing under California’s DELETE Act compels roughly 500 CPPA-registered brokers to delete you within 45 days. It’s a statutory right you don’t pay for.
California Civil Code §1798.99.86 — the DELETE Act, signed in 2023 — created a single-request mechanism that compels every data broker registered with the California Privacy Protection Agency to delete a consumer’s data. There are roughly 500 brokers in the registered-broker registry. Under the statute they have 45 days to comply. The right is yours; you don’t have to pay anyone to exercise it.
Once you’re in, here’s the flow.
Few Californians have filed so far. The official flow is clunky, and most people have never heard of the law. We made the filing flow friendly, and this page prepares the request for you to submit.
What we prepare, free, and walk you through submitting
We prepare the CPPA DROP-portal request; you submit it, and we track broker responses. No card, no trial, no marketing sequence.
A DELETE Act request listing every email identity you verify, your California residency proof, and the CPPA-aligned consent. We prepare the submission to the California Privacy Protection Agency’s DROP portal, which reaches every broker in the current registered-broker registry, and walk you through the submission step. You get a filing receipt for your records and a dashboard view of broker responses as they come in over the 45-day window.
We don’t ask for a card. We don’t enroll you in a trial. We don’t add you to a marketing sequence. The DELETE Act is statutorily free; we treat it that way as the strongest possible demonstration that our free tier is what we say it is.
What we tell you, honestly, after the filing
The DELETE Act covers roughly 500 CPPA-registered brokers. There are another 400+ unregistered/international brokers — typically smaller aggregators and people-search sites under different corporate shells — outside the DELETE Act’s scope. KnytX’s paid Shield tiers cover 190+ broker sites in total, including ones the DELETE Act can’t reach. If your goal is to be fully off the broker market, the DELETE Act gets you most of the way there and leaves a measurable residual.
Closing that residual is what paid KnytX Shield does. It runs per-broker CCPA §1798.105 requests against the unregistered brokers, plus continuous re-removal because brokers re-list under public records and data partnerships within months. We mention this once in the post-filing dashboard. We don’t pitch you twice.
A note on other states
Texas, Vermont, Colorado, and Oregon have movement on similar bills with varying scopes. None of them have a one-filing mechanism with the breadth of the California DELETE Act yet. When they do, we’ll add per-state filing pages. In the meantime, non-Californians who want broker coverage can start with the free exposure scan and decide from there.