Indiana data privacy and data broker removal

Indiana has a comprehensive privacy law that gives you the right to access, delete, and control your personal data. Here is how those rights work in practice and how to remove yourself from data brokers.

Your rights in Indiana

Indiana residents are protected by the Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA).

• Right to access and know: request a copy of the personal information a company holds about you.
• Right to correct: request fixes to inaccurate personal information.
• Right to delete: ask a company to delete your personal information.
• Right to data portability: get your data in a portable format you can take elsewhere.
• Right to opt out of sale: tell a company to stop selling your personal information.
• Right to opt out of targeted advertising: stop ads targeted at you based on your personal data.
• Right to opt out of profiling: stop companies from building a behavioral profile about you.
• Right to appeal: challenge a company's decision to deny your privacy request.

Does this cover the company that has my data?

Most companies that collect or sell personal data in Indiana are likely covered. The law applies to businesses that, in a calendar year, control or process the data of at least 100,000 Indiana residents, or at least 25,000 residents while earning more than half their revenue from selling personal data.

How to remove yourself from data brokers in Indiana

Your state law gives you the right to request deletion, but exercising it takes real effort. Your information is scattered across data brokers, people-search sites, and beyond. Here are the most effective steps, in order.

1. Enable Global Privacy Control

Global Privacy Control is a free browser setting that automatically tells every website you visit not to sell or share your data. It takes about two minutes to enable and then works in the background. Indiana does not require companies to honor it, but many major companies do anyway because California's law obligates them.

2. Submit direct opt-out requests

You can submit requests to each broker directly. Look for the "Do not sell my personal information" link in a company's website footer; most major brokers have one. You can also file an access, deletion, or correction request through a company's privacy policy page.

Under Indiana's law, covered companies must respond within the deadline the law sets. If they don't, you have grounds to file a complaint with the attorney general.

3. Automate ongoing removal

Here is the part nobody tells you: even after you finish every step above, brokers pull your information back in from public records, data-sharing networks, and commercial databases. Within a few months, your profiles reappear. Staying removed is not a one-time task. It is ongoing work that is hard to keep up with by hand.

Indiana's data broker law: what it means for you

Indiana does not keep a dedicated data-broker registry. Most national brokers are registered in California and will honor an opt-out from a resident of any state, but without an Indiana law requiring it, you have little recourse if a broker ignores you. Delist handles this across brokers and states in one place.

Other privacy protections in Indiana

Beyond the comprehensive privacy law, Indiana has additional protections that may apply to you:

• The attorney general published a Data Consumer Bill of Rights that plainly summarizes your rights under the law.
• The Address Confidentiality Program, run by the attorney general's office, gives survivors of domestic violence, stalking, and similar crimes a confidential substitute mailing address.
• Companies must complete a data-protection assessment before any high-risk processing of your data.
• Biometric data: Indiana has no standalone biometric-privacy law, but the ICDPA treats biometric data as sensitive, so a company needs your consent to collect it.

How to file a privacy complaint in Indiana

File with the Indiana Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division: in.gov/attorneygeneral/consumer-protection-division

The attorney general enforces the law in the aggregate, investigating patterns of violations rather than resolving individual disputes. Filing still matters: it builds the record that drives enforcement.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• hunton.com
• koleyjessen.com
• in.gov