Minnesota Data Removal Guide (2026)
Minnesota's Consumer Data Privacy Act took effect July 2025. The law includes data-minimization obligations and profile-based decision transparency provisions that may matter when a controller uses personal data for high-impact or targeted processing.
Research status: published state guide pending fresh official-source re-verification.
This page is educational orientation, not legal advice. Scope, exemptions, deadlines, penalties, regulator powers and broker routes can change. Verify the current statute and state regulator guidance before relying on a right or deadline.
At a glance
- Comprehensive state privacy law
- Recorded: MCDPA
- Broker response deadline
- 45 days in this research snapshot for qualifying requests; extensions and exemptions may apply
- Enforcement
- Minnesota Attorney General
Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA)
MCDPA applies to legal entities that conduct business in Minnesota or target Minnesota residents and meet either the 100,000-consumer branch or the 25,000-consumer-plus-more-than-25%-sale-revenue branch, subject to statutory exclusions. Rights include access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-outs for sale, targeted advertising, and certain profiling; qualifying opt-out preference signals are required. Controllers generally have 45 days to respond, with a possible 45-day extension. The 30-day warning-letter cure condition expired January 31, 2026; the AG has exclusive enforcement authority under the current statute.
Read the full MCDPAexplainer →Scope, thresholds, exceptions, cure rules, and enforcement details where documented.
What rights do Minnesota residents have?
- →Delete, access, correct, port, opt-out
- →Right to question profiling results and correct inaccurate data used in the decision
- →Data-minimization obligations on controllers
- →Privacy impact assessment requirements
Where does your data leak from in Minnesota?
The FTC explains that people-search sites may combine public records, public social profiles, and information from other brokers. The examples below are a research snapshot, not an exhaustive or person-specific source map for Minnesota:
- Hennepin, Ramsey County property records
- Minnesota Judicial Branch case search (MNCIS)
- Minnesota DVS driver records
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What if a broker ignores your request?
If a qualifying request does not receive a response within the applicable window, review the current extension and exemption rules, then consider the Minnesota Attorney General complaint route. The authority's jurisdiction and available remedies vary.
File a complaint with Minnesota Attorney General ↗FAQ: Minnesota data removal
What makes MCDPA different from other state privacy laws?+
MCDPA includes automated-decision and data-minimization provisions. The exact explanation, review, deletion, and exemption rules depend on the processing and current statute; ask the controller for the route that applies to the request.