How to remove your personal data in Connecticut
Residents of Connecticut have a deletion right under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act. Connecticut has no central platform, so each company must be contacted individually, by you or by an authorised agent acting for you.
What to do first
Start with the largest brokers, because they feed the smaller ones. Our directory lists every source we track. Four of the largest cannot be automated by anyone and need about ten minutes of your own time each.
Then deal with what a privacy law does not reach: professional profile sites, search results, and what an AI model says when someone asks about you. What that covers.
Common questions
- Do I have a right to have my data deleted in Connecticut?
- Yes. the Connecticut Data Privacy Act gives residents of Connecticut a right to request deletion of personal data held about them, and to opt out of its sale.
- Does Connecticut have a platform like California's?
- No. California is the only state with a central deletion platform. Connecticut gives you the right, but each company has to be contacted individually, by you or by someone authorised to act for you.
- How long do they have to respond?
- Generally 45 days under a US state privacy law, often extendable once. A request that has passed its deadline without a substantive answer is worth escalating to the state attorney general or privacy regulator.
- Can someone else send these requests for me?
- Yes. These laws recognise an authorised agent acting on your behalf with your permission. That is what Cartograph does: you sign an authorisation, and every request cites the Connecticut Data Privacy Act by name rather than waving at privacy law generally.
- What is not covered?
- A state privacy law reaches businesses that meet its thresholds. It does not reach news archives, court records, or an AI model's training data. Removing the web pages a model reads is a separate job, and a necessary one, because current models answer by searching the web at the moment they are asked.
General information, not legal advice. If the law in Connecticut has changed, tell us at support@usecartograph.com and we will correct it and date the change.