How to remove your personal data in Delaware
Residents of Delaware have a deletion right under the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. Delaware 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 Delaware?
- Yes. the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act gives residents of Delaware a right to request deletion of personal data held about them, and to opt out of its sale.
- Does Delaware have a platform like California's?
- No. California is the only state with a central deletion platform. Delaware 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 Delaware Personal 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 Delaware has changed, tell us at support@usecartograph.com and we will correct it and date the change.