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Comment: Vermont’s comprehensive privacy law adds to regulatory oversight data brokers are increasingly facing

By Madeline Hughes ( May 13, 2024, 23:27 GMT | Comment) -- On Friday as lawmakers in Vermont passed its comprehensive privacy law, which goes further than any other state by allowing for a limited private right of action to enforce the law against data brokers and companies that handle large numbers of Vermonters' data, privacy professionals in Washington, DC, focused much of a conference on the increasing regulatory scrutiny facing data brokers. The new law, which still needs to be signed by the governor to take effect, continues a trend of scrutiny that Vermont kicked off in 2018, when state lawmakers passed the first data broker registry law.On Friday as lawmakers in Vermont passed its comprehensive privacy law, which goes further than any other state by allowing for a limited private right of action to enforce the law against data brokers and companies that handle large numbers of Vermonters' data, privacy professionals in Washington, DC, focused much of a conference on the increasing regulatory scrutiny facing data brokers....

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