Famous Birthdays LLC

Famous Birthdays LLC is a registered data mining company located in Santa Monica, CA. Famous Birthdays LLC engages in the collection of personal information, which may include: financial status; health status; immigration status; sexual orientation; children’s personal information; biometric data; geolocation data; reproductive health care data; public records data; and court judgment data. Famous Birthdays LLC sells, for profit, certain personal information to customers, of which type may include: private businesses; law enforcement agencies; state governments; the U.S. federal government; foreign entities; and artificial intelligence (AI) developers. (See below for the specific data collection and sales practices of Famous Birthdays LLC.)

To opt-out of data collection and sale by Famous Birthdays LLC, individual consumers must submit their request to Famous Birthdays LLC directly. California residents may use the state’s Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (DROP) to submit a single request that forces Famous Birthdays LLC, as well as +600 registered data brokers, to delete and stop selling their data. (If you don’t live in California, you must submit removal requests directly through the privacy portal of each data mining company.)

In addition, all Americans have access to their special credit reports and special credit scores. These companies maintain consumer files relating to medical records and payments; residential and tenant history; banking and checking writing history; employment and work history; and insurance claims history (auto, property, life, long-term care, disability). View the Directory of Special Credit Reporting Agencies to request your files and scores.

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What Types of Data does Famous Birthdays LLC Collect?

• Famous Birthdays LLC collects personal information of minors: Yes.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ account logins or numbers with security codes that grant access to third‑party accounts: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ government‑issued identification numbers used to verify an individual’s identity: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ citizenship data, including immigration status: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ union membership status: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ sexual orientation status: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ gender identity and gender expression data: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ biometric data: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ precise geolocation: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC collects consumers’ reproductive health care data: No.

What Categories of Customers does Famous Birthdays LLC Sell To?

• Famous Birthdays LLC shared or sold consumers’ data to a foreign actor in the past year: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC shared or sold consumers’ data to the federal government in the past year: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC shared or sold consumers’ data to other state governments in the past year: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC shared or sold consumers’ data to law enforcement in the past year, except when required by subpoena or court order: No.
• Famous Birthdays LLC shared or sold consumers’ data to a developer of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system or model in the past year: No.

Do Other Data Protection Laws Apply to Famous Birthdays LLC?

• Is Famous Birthdays LLC or any of its subsidiaries is regulated by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act: No.
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the FCRA, describe the types of personal information covered:
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• Is Famous Birthdays LLC or any of its subsidiaries is regulated by the Gramm‑Leach‑Bliley Act (GLBA) and implementing regulations: No.
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the GLBA, describe the types of personal information covered:
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• Is Famous Birthdays LLC or any of its subsidiaries is regulated by the California Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act (IIPPA): No.
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the IIPPA, describe the types of personal information covered:
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the IIPPA, describe the specific products or services covered:
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• Is Famous Birthdays LLC or any of its subsidiaries is regulated by the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA): No.
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the CMIA, describe the types of personal information covered:
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• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the CMIA, describe the percentage of data activities covered:
• Is Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by the HIPAA privacy, security, and breach‑notification rules: No.
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by HIPAA, describe the types of personal information covered:
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by HIPAA, describe the specific products or services covered:
• If Famous Birthdays LLC or its subsidiaries are regulated by HIPAA, describe the percentage of data activities covered:

Did Famous Birthdays LLC Provide Additional Context or Comments?

Please note there is a major discrepancy between the numbers of requests Famous Birthdays LLC (“Famous Birthdays”) receives. This is because Famous Birthdays uses consumer personal information in two distinct ways:

1. Running an advertising-supported public website, which shares consumer information with advertising agencies; and
2. Maintaining and licensing access to a database of information concerning celebrities, the overwhelming majority of which is “publicly available” information under the CCPA.

Use #1 attracts large numbers of opts outs from selling/sharing, which are received through Famous Birthdays’ consent management platform (including via global privacy control) and processed instantaneously.

Use #2 attracts very modest numbers of requests to delete from the profiled celebrities, which are processed manually. Please note that it is only use #2 that qualifies Famous Birthdays as a data broker.

Information is being provided about both uses because we understand that to be required, but we would note that conflating the two kinds of data uses is more likely to confuse consumers than it is to inform them.

Separately, we’d ask that the CPPA uses its regulatory authority to reduce the burdens this process places on small businesses like Famous Birthdays that only barely qualify as Data Brokers under the law and appear to be on the margins of what the State is seeking to regulate with this process. The reporting could be better directed to only those uses implicated by a business’ data brokerage operations, and could also levy fees that are better tailored to business’ ability to pay. On the latter score, note that the current fees are extremely onerous on small business.