🏳️Global Privacy Control — Take Control Of Your Privacy

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Exercise your privacy rights in one step via the “Global Privacy Control” (GPC) signal, a proposed specification backed by over a dozen organizations.

GPC signal detected.Test against the[reference server](https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me).

Take control of your privacy.

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Online privacy should be accessible to everyone. It starts with a simpler way to exercise your rights.

[Get Started](/#download)

[Get Involved](/#contact)

[Read the Latest Press Release](/press-release/20210128) and [Follow @globalprivctrl on Twitter](https://twitter.com/globalprivctrl).

Turn On GPC

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Enable Global Privacy Control to communicate your privacy preference.

Send the Signal

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Your browser will send the GPC signal to websites you visit.

Exercise Your Rights

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Participating websites can respect your privacy rights accordingly.

You may have noticed “Do Not Sell” and “Object To Processing” links around the web from companies complying with privacy regulations. To opt out of websites selling or sharing your personal information, you need to click these links for every site you visit.

Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

Together, over a dozen organizations are developing the GPC specification. [Get Involved](#contact)

GPC lets users signal their desired privacy, just by browsing.

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GPC is available as part of several major browsers, extensions, and websites.

[View Full Spec](https://privacycg.github.io/gpc-spec/)[Test against the reference server](https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/)

The GPC signal will be intended to communicate a Do Not Sell request from a global privacy control, as per [CCPA-REGULATIONS §999.315](https://www.oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/privacy/oal-sub-final-text-of-regs.pdf) for that browser or device, or, if known, the consumer. Under the GDPR, the intent of the GPC signal is to convey a general request that data controllers limit the sale or sharing of the user’s personal data to other data controllers ([GDPR Articles 7 & 21](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679)). Over time, the GPC signal may be intended to communicate rights in other jurisdictions.

> “CA DOJ is encouraged to see the technology community developing a global privacy control in furtherance of the CCPA and consumer privacy rights.”

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**Xavier Becerra**

_CA Attorney General_

](https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1313884873413726208)

> “40 million consumers are now using web browsers and other privacy tools that support this global opt out. Major publishers, the New York Times, Washington Post, have already pledged to respect it. California's Attorney General has already said that companies must respect GPC. This is a big step in Americans privacy, a big, big step forward.”

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**Ron Wyden**

_Senate Finance Chairman_

](https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1369313187317878788?s=21)

> “My hope is that Governor Northam and the legislature will improve \[the newly passed Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act\] in the near future in important ways... making it easier for Virginia citizens to invoke their privacy rights, such as through a global privacy control.”

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**Mark R. Warner**

_VA Senator_

](https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?id=69CDF4A0-C7E6-4357-A0F1-E9F107FCEF8C)

> “GPC provides a clear and binary indication of an individual's choice... Based on a review of several of the web browsers' intentions regarding GPC, it appears likely to be a prominent, easily understandable, and accessible mechanism in the browser settings.”

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**Alexander McD White**

_Bermuda Privacy Commissioner_

](https://www.privacy.bm/post/global-privacy-control-interoperability-in-action)

> “It's past time to give consumers a real and enforceable way to stop companies from tracking and selling their data. My Mind Your Own Business Act would do just that, and this project \[Global Privacy Control\] shows it’s possible.”

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**Ron Wyden**

_Senate Finance Chairman_

](https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1314234870747422720)

> “CCPA requires businesses to treat a user-enabled global privacy control as a legally valid consumer request to opt out of the sale of their data. CCPA opened the door to developing a technical standard, like the GPC, which satisfies this legal requirement & protects privacy.”

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**Xavier Becerra**

_CA Attorney General_

](https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1354850758236102656)

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Join over 50 million users.

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Download a supported browser or extension and start exercising your privacy rights with GPC.

[View All Downloads](/orgs)

*   Abine DeleteMe

    [LEARN MORE about Abine DeleteMe](https://joindeleteme.com/blog/how-to-enable-global-privacy-control/)

*   Brave Browser

    [LEARN MORE about Brave Browser](https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/4-global-privacy-control/)

*   Disconnect

    [LEARN MORE about Disconnect](https://disconnect.me/)

*   DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser

    [LEARN MORE about DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser](https://spreadprivacy.com/global-privacy-control-enabled-by-default/)

*   Firefox

    [LEARN MORE about Firefox](https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2021/10/28/implementing-global-privacy-control/)

*   OptMeowt by privacy-tech-lab

    [LEARN MORE about OptMeowt by privacy-tech-lab](https://github.com/privacy-tech-lab/gpc-optmeowt)

*   Privacy Badger by EFF

    [LEARN MORE about Privacy Badger by EFF](https://privacybadger.org)

*   lockrMail by lockr

    [LEARN MORE about lockrMail by lockr](https://lockrMail.com)

Founding Organizations

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The following organizations, representing 50 million users and hundreds of thousands of websites, are in support of GPC.

[](https://joindeleteme.com/blog/how-to-enable-global-privacy-control/)

[](https://automattic.com/)

[](https://brave.com/global-privacy-content/)

[](https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/issue/tech-privacy/)

[](https://disconnect.me/)

[](https://spreadprivacy.com/global-privacy-control-enabled-by-default/)

[](https://www.eff.org/)

[](https://mozilla.org/)

[](https://www.nytimes.com/)

[](https://www.washingtonpost.com/)

[](https://www.meredith.com/)

[](https://raptive.com/)

[View All Organizations](/orgs#Business)

Featured Press & Announcements

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*   [GPC Privacy Browser Signal Now Used by Millions and Honored By Major PublishersGlobal Privacy Control](https://globalprivacycontrol.org/press-release/20210128)

*   [Your browser can tell websites how to treat your data. But companies didn’t have to listen — until nowThe Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/global-privacy-control-firefox/)

*   [‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might WorkWired](https://www.wired.com/story/global-privacy-control-launches-do-not-track-is-back/)

*   [Tech-publisher coalition backs new push for browser-level privacy controlsTechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/07/tech-publisher-coalition-backs-new-push-for-browser-level-privacy-controls/)

[View More Press](/press)

Frequently Asked Questions

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Global Privacy Control (GPC) is a proposed specification designed to allow Internet users to notify businesses of their privacy preferences, such as whether or not they want their personal information to be sold or shared. It consists of a setting or extension in the user’s browser or mobile device and acts as a mechanism that websites can use to indicate they support the specification.

GPC is being developed by a broad coalition of stakeholders: technologists, web publishers, technology companies, browser vendors, extension developers, academics, and civil rights organizations.

The GPC was initially spearheaded by [Ashkan Soltani](https://twitter.com/ashk4n) [Georgetown Law](https://www.georgetowntech.org/) and [Sebastian Zimmeck](https://twitter.com/SZimmeck) ([Wesleyan University](https://www.wesleyan.edu/)) in collaboration with [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com), [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/), [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/), [Automattic (Wordpress.com & Tumblr)](https://automattic.com/), [Glitch](https://glitch.com/), [DuckDuckGo](https://spreadprivacy.com/announcing-global-privacy-control/), [Brave](https://brave.com/global-privacy-control/), [Mozilla](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/), [Disconnect](https://disconnect.me/), [Abine](https://joindeleteme.com/blog/how-to-enable-global-privacy-control/), [Digital Content Next (DCN)](https://digitalcontentnext.org/), [Consumer Reports](https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/issue/tech-privacy/), and the [Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)](https://www.eff.org/).

GPC is available for an increasing number of browsers and browser extensions, listed [here](https://globalprivacycontrol.org/#download). If you want to use GPC, you can download and enable it via a participating browser or browser extension. More information about downloading GPC is available [here](https://globalprivacycontrol.org/).

The GPC spec is easy to implement on a wide variety of websites and other services. The proposed specification and back-end implementation reference documentation are available [here](https://global-privacy-control.glitch.me/). For additional information, please feel free to reach out on Github or Twitter ([@globablprivctrl](https://twitter.com/globalprivctrl)).

As it is intended to invoke users’ privacy rights, we encourage policymakers from around the world to engage in the development of this specification. If you would like to learn more about how GPC could work in your jurisdiction, please contact us via email at [info\[at\]globalprivacycontrol.org](mailto:info%5Bat%5Dglobalprivacycontrol.org).

GPC was initially introduced at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) [Privacy Community Group](https://privacycg.github.io/) (Privacy CG) in April 2020. A number of stakeholders are part of that community. There are ongoing discussions in the Privacy CG. Interested parties are encouraged to engage with the proposal [here](https://github.com/privacycg/proposals/issues/10/).

Additionally, GPC is currently being implemented across the web. A number of browsers, extensions, and publishers are supporting or implementing GPC (see below).

[View All FAQs](/faq)

Get Involved

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Contact us to learn more about supporting GPC in your browser, app, or website.

[@globalprivctrl](https://twitter.com/globalprivctrl)