Kentucky data privacy and data broker removal

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

Your rights in Kentucky

Kentucky residents are protected by the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA).

• Right to Access & Know: Request a copy of the personal information a company holds about you.
• Right to Correct: Request corrections 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 to another service.
• Right to Opt Out of Sale: Tell a company to stop selling your personal information.
• Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising: Stop companies from targeting you with ads 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?

The KCDPA covers companies doing business in Kentucky that, in a year, control or process the personal data of at least 100,000 Kentucky consumers, or at least 25,000 consumers while earning more than half their gross revenue from selling personal data. Most large data brokers meet one of these thresholds.

How to remove yourself from data brokers in Kentucky

Your state law gives you the right to request deletion. Exercising it everywhere your information shows up takes real effort. 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 a couple of minutes to turn on and then works in the background on every site. Kentucky does not mandate it yet, but many companies honor it voluntarily because they already comply with California's law.

2. Submit direct opt-out requests

You can also opt out at each company directly. Look for the "Do not sell my personal information" link in the website footer, and submit access, deletion, or correction requests through each company's privacy policy page.

Under Kentucky's law, covered companies must respond within the deadline the statute sets. If they don't, you have grounds to file a complaint with the Kentucky Attorney General.

3. Keep the removals going

Even after you finish every step above, brokers re-ingest your information from public records, data-sharing networks, and commercial databases. Within a few months, your profiles reappear. Staying removed isn't a one-time task — it's ongoing work that's hard to keep up with by hand.

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

Kentucky has no dedicated data-broker registry. Most national brokers are registered in California and honor opt-out requests from residents of any state, but without a Kentucky law requiring it, you have little recourse if a broker ignores you. Delist handles this across brokers in one place.

Other privacy protections in Kentucky

Beyond the comprehensive privacy law, Kentucky has a few other protections that may apply to you:

• Address-confidentiality protection for survivors of domestic violence.
• Data-protection assessments apply to processing that begins on or after June 1, 2026 (the House Bill 473 amendment).
• No Daniel's Law-style takedown statute for police, judges, or other public officials.
• Biometric data: Kentucky has no standalone biometric-privacy statute, but biometric data counts as sensitive data under the KCDPA, so companies need your consent to collect it.

How to file a privacy complaint in Kentucky

Kentucky Attorney General, Office of Consumer Protection: https://www.ag.ky.gov/Priorities/Consumer-Protection/

Most state agencies enforce privacy laws in the aggregate. They investigate patterns of violations rather than resolving individual disputes. Filing a complaint still matters: it creates a record that helps trigger enforcement actions.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• koleyjessen.com
• multistate.us
• ag.ky.gov