There are privacy "promises" and then there are privacy laws like CCPA in California which companies are supposed to comply with. CCPA requires data brokers and large tech companies to maintain at least two channels by which users (including users who have no account / nothing to do with the company) can submit basic privacy requests like right to know and right to delete.I searched for a couple hours last week and couldn't find a single way to submit a CCPA request to Google.
If anyone has the links, I'd love to be proven wrong here, but the sense I came away with is that Google is somewhat hostile towards real, accessible user privacy.
Deathmax|2 years ago
1. Navigate to google.com
2. Click on Privacy on the bottom of the page, redirecting to https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ > https://policies.google.com/privacy
3. Go to the "U.S. state law requirements" section, click on the "contact Google" link which redirects to https://support.google.com/policies/answer/9581826
4. Go to "Your privacy & security controls" > "Get help with privacy-related questions" > "Contact Google's Data Protection Office", and you get a link to their web form at https://support.google.com/policies/contact/general_privacy_....
The privacy policy can differ from country to country, I had to proxy into the US to get the section on US state law requirements, otherwise from the UK it's replaced with a European requirements section instead.
> CCPA requires data brokers and large tech companies to maintain at least two channels
My interpretation of the CCPA is such that a business that operates exclusively online only needs to provide an email address and the two or more designated methods does not apply.