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Landmark laws: data brokers and the future of US privacy regulation

March 6, 2019

Via: CSO

Data brokers have been operating in the dark for years. If you’re interested in digital privacy, the fact that your information is regularly traded by hundreds of secretive companies will come as no surprise. What’s less clear is who these organisations are, what information they store, and who exactly they’re working with. Thanks to a new state law in Vermont, companies trading in the third-party data of residents must register with the state. The resulting registry gives us a rare, passing glance into a thriving economy that operates mostly under the radar, and often with little oversight.

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