The California Privacy Protection Agency announced that the California State Legislature approved the Expanding Privacy Rights Act (SB 923), which expands the CCPA's right to delete to cover all non-exempt personal information a business holds about a consumer, including data originally collected from third parties. The bill also requires online-only businesses with a direct relationship to consumers to provide online methods, such as webforms, for submitting access, deletion, and correction requests, and expressly permits businesses to retain suppression lists so deleted information stays deleted. The bill, authored by Senator Becker and sponsored by CalPrivacy, now goes to the Governor for consideration.
This is prospective legislation, not an enforcement action, so no remedies were imposed. Once effective, SB 923 would require businesses to delete all non-exempt personal information about a consumer upon request regardless of whether the business collected it directly or from a third party, allow businesses to maintain a suppression list so information stays deleted, preserve existing CCPA exemptions (e.g., fraud prevention, peer-reviewed research, legal obligations), and require online-only businesses with a direct consumer relationship to offer an online method such as a webform for submitting privacy requests.
Although not an enforcement action, SB 923 should prompt a proactive contract review focused on third-party-sourced consumer data. In-house teams should audit data licensing, data broker, co-marketing, and analytics/vendor agreements to inventory what consumer personal information is ingested from third parties, and update data processing addenda so deletion requests propagate downstream to service providers and contractors while expressly permitting suppression lists to keep data deleted. Data retention schedule clauses and any vendor or customer terms that treat third-party-sourced data as outside deletion obligations should be revised, since the bill closes that loophole under the CCPA. Finally, agreements with privacy request-management vendors and website operators should guarantee online submission methods (e.g., webforms) for access, deletion, and correction requests, as the bill requires online-only businesses with a direct consumer relationship to offer more than a plain email address for request intake.
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"the California State Legislature for approving the Expanding Privacy Rights Act"
"August 28, 2026"
"will now go to the Governor for consideration"
"the California Consumer Privacy Act's (CCPA) right to delete to cover all non-exempt personal information collected about them"
"if that information was collected from a third party"
"It requires online-only businesses with a direct relationship to the consumer to provide an online method, such as a webform, for consumers to submit privacy requests"
Senator Josh Becker introduced SB 923, the Expanding Privacy Rights Act, sponsored by CalPrivacy. The bill would expand the CCPA right to delete to include personal information obtained from third-party sources, and require businesses to provide multiple methods (e.g., webform) for submitting privacy requests.
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