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Regulation of Data Brokers


Registered Data Brokers in the United States: 2021

Currently, no federal law gives you the right to prevent data brokers from collecting, sharing or publishing your personal information. Read ...

Frequently Asked Questions for Data Brokers

In Texas, data brokers are governed by Chapter 509 of the Business and Commerce Code and the secretary of state's administrative rules found in 1 Texas ...

An Act to amend Title 6 of the Delaware Code Relating to Data Brokers

Registration only applies to data brokers who sell or license information. The Act prohibits acquiring or providing brokered personal information where it will ...

CFPB planning new rules for data brokers later this year

CFPB planning new rules for data brokers later this year ... Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra said today that the bureau ...

What Is a Data Broker and How Does It Work? - Clearcode

Data brokers often operate either on the brink of the law, or in full accordance with the law, especially in countries where data policies are not very strict ...

Data Broker Developments and Action Items in 2024 and Beyond

In the absence of a federal law that comprehensively targets “data brokers,” a growing number of states have begun filling the void and passing or enhancing ...

California Legislature Passes Bill Regulating Data Brokers

On September 14, 2023, the California legislature passed S.B. 362 (“Act”), a bill that would impose new requirements on data brokers and grant ...

Data Privacy, Data Collection, Data Brokers | JD Supra

3 New State Privacy Regulations Take Effect on July 1, 2024, With Federal Legislation Still on the Horizon: Are You Ready to... Hinshaw & Culbertson - Privacy, ...

How the US Can Stop Data Brokers' Worst Practices—Right Now

Shadowy data brokers constrained by few laws gather and supply mountains of information to companies and government agencies with enormous ...

US Data Broker Registration Laws: Overview - Practical Law

A Practice Note providing an overview of US laws that specifically regulate a data broker's use of personal data, including laws in California, Oregon, ...

Regs Are Catching Up to Data Brokers | Osano

With the new year, new data broker laws have come into effect. Texas and Oregon both passed data broker laws in 2023, bringing us to a total of ...

Transparency as a First Step to Regulating Data Brokers

Data brokers hold huge amounts of data, both personally identifiable and otherwise, but attempts at data regulation have failed to bring them ...

California's New Data Broker Law Could Be The First Of Many - Forbes

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that will let residents request to have data brokers delete their data, an effort other ...

California enacts new data broker regulations - Buckley LLP

The California governor recently signed SB 362 (the “Act”), which will impose regulations on data brokers by allowing consumers to request ...

Federal Privacy Rules Must Get “Data Broker” Definitions Right

This post examines existing definitions and understandings of data brokerage in US law and policy. It analyzes the scope of these definitions, surrounding ...

In 2024 Oregon Will Join Short List of States Requiring Data Broker ...

Oregon recently joined Vermont and California as the third state requiring data broker registration before collecting, selling, or licensing “brokered personal ...

Guidance on Vermont's Act 171 of 2018 Data Broker Regulation 9 ...

Who does this regulation apply to? The regulation has three main parts: 1. A requirement that Data Brokers register with the Vermont Secretary ...

Navigating Data Privacy Governance: A Guide for Data Brokers

Not only that, but as regulators clarify and expand requirements around consent (for example, requiring companies to honor browser-based opt-out ...

Data brokers: Who is selling your data and how to protect it

In the United States, there is no comprehensive federal law regulating data brokers. Instead, individual states have implemented their own regulations.

2024 Privacy Issues: New Laws & Requirements Reshape ...

There are now four states with data broker registration laws in effect: California, Vermont, Oregon and Texas. While the California and Vermont ...