{
 "id": "control-limits",
 "name": "Limits of search removal, DROP and freezes",
 "description": "Specific documented control limits. No universal claim about all subscription services.",
 "scope": "Five documented effects and limits of the named official controls.",
 "version": "1.0",
 "published": "2026-10-24",
 "verified": "2026-10-24",
 "update_policy": "Check the named control instructions quarterly.",
 "columns": [
  {
   "key": "record_type",
   "label": "Record or access"
  },
  {
   "key": "control",
   "label": "Control"
  },
  {
   "key": "effect",
   "label": "Documented effect"
  },
  {
   "key": "next_step",
   "label": "Next step"
  },
  {
   "key": "limit",
   "label": "Limit"
  }
 ],
 "changelog": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-24",
   "change": "First scoped edition from official control instructions."
  }
 ],
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "rows": [
  {
   "id": "drop-public-records",
   "record_type": "Publicly available source records",
   "control": "DROP",
   "effect": "DROP excludes publicly available data from its deletion process.",
   "next_step": "Use the record-holding office's official correction or protection procedure where one exists.",
   "limit": "GLP cannot promise removal or decide a legal entitlement.",
   "source": "CalPrivacy, How DROP works",
   "url": "https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/how-drop-works/",
   "checked_on": "2026-10-24"
  },
  {
   "id": "drop-first-party",
   "record_type": "Information provided directly to a business",
   "control": "DROP",
   "effect": "The business is not required to delete first-party data based on the DROP request.",
   "next_step": "Use that business's own privacy request route.",
   "limit": "The applicable law and business's obligations can differ.",
   "source": "CalPrivacy, How DROP works",
   "url": "https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/how-drop-works/",
   "checked_on": "2026-10-24"
  },
  {
   "id": "google-search-source",
   "record_type": "A webpage removed from Google Search",
   "control": "Google Results about you",
   "effect": "Search removal does not remove the information from its source webpage.",
   "next_step": "Contact the source website owner through its official route.",
   "limit": "Google may deny requests for information valuable to the public.",
   "source": "Google Search Help, Results about you",
   "url": "https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/12719076?hl=en",
   "checked_on": "2026-10-24"
  },
  {
   "id": "credit-freeze-access",
   "record_type": "Credit report access",
   "control": "A credit freeze",
   "effect": "A freeze restricts access to the credit report. It is an access control, not evidence that source records were deleted.",
   "next_step": "Manage each company's freeze separately and lift it when access is needed.",
   "limit": "The statement about deletion is a logical distinction, not a claim that a particular record was deleted.",
   "source": "USAGov, How to place or lift a security freeze",
   "url": "https://www.usa.gov/credit-freeze",
   "checked_on": "2026-10-24"
  },
  {
   "id": "lexis-existing-accounts",
   "record_type": "Existing account review or collection",
   "control": "LexisNexis security freeze",
   "effect": "The published freeze does not block every permitted existing-account request.",
   "next_step": "Read the company's current exceptions before relying on a freeze.",
   "limit": "This does not establish every company's exemptions.",
   "source": "LexisNexis security freeze instructions",
   "url": "https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/freeze",
   "checked_on": "2026-10-24"
  }
 ]
}