So all these companies making money off your personal information, do you receive a check?

Outstanding research and information! I know that I’m pretty tired of all the junk emails and junk snail mail I get from people sharing my info!

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The state ofCalifornia is the furthest along in establishing privacy laws for its people. This includes medical privacy, internet privacy, as well as laws that restrict businesses, medical facilities, the internet from using your personal information to make money for themselves. After all, do you receive a check from the profits they make off of you?

California Law – Constitutional Right to Privacy

California Constitution, Article 1, section 1.The state Constitution gives each citizen an “inalienable right” to pursue and obtain “privacy.

California Privacy Rights Include:

Public Record Exemption for Sex Offense Victims –California Government Code section 6254 and California Penal Code section 293. These laws prohibit the disclosure of the names and addresses of victims of specific sex-related crimes in documents provided in response to requests for records, including responses provided under the California Public Records Act.
Domestic Violence Victim Privacy – California Civil Code…

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I have often wondered what we’d pay for stamps if the postal service wasn’t clogged up with junk, which goes directly into the recycling bin … I have also seriously considered cutting out the bottom of my mail box and positioning it over my recycling bin for efficiency – have not done so for 2 reasons: 1) tampering with a mail box is probably a crime; 2) Waste Management won’t collect bins which are within 3′ of the mail box.

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Marcha's Two-Cents Worth on December 28, 2015 at 1:45 pm said:

Hahaha, I understand completely. Actually I think all that junk mail is what keeps the USPS in business. Almost everything else is electronic these days whether it’s bills or letters. I get so much junk email, too. Every time you sign a petition or buy something they put you on their list. I need to spend a day just unsubscribing.

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- ♀ Paradise Kendra ♀ on December 28, 2015 at 2:35 pm said:
  
  Hahahaha, true. Though somehow I’m less irritated from receiving catalogs and promotions through the post office than I am by being hounded through the phone and internet. I too spend days unsubscribing and hanging up on solicitors, ugh.
  
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- foguth on December 28, 2015 at 4:42 pm said:
  
  Glad to know I’m not the only one … the saddest part is that trees died so we could get inundated with that junk.
  
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- Marcha's Two-Cents Worth on December 28, 2015 at 5:22 pm said:
  
  So true. Without all that junk mail we’d have thousands of unemployed postal workers which may not be a good thing. LOL.
  
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- foguth on December 29, 2015 at 12:43 am said:
  
  Unemployed lumber jacks, too … and probably better air quality.
  
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