On July 27, 2023, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed HB 2052 (“the Act”) into law. The Act relates to data broker registration for entities that qualify as data broker under the Act. Data Broker Registration Overview The Act details that Oregon data brokers “may not collect, sell or license brokered personal data within this […]
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July 3, 2018 Verizon Wireless (“Verizon”) recently announced that it would end the sale of cell phone owners’ real-time location data to companies that buy and sell access to consumer location data. Within days of Verizon’s announcement, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile piggy-backed on Verizon’s move by announcing that they too plan to limit and/or end
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller recently expanded his investigation into the data broker industry, focusing specifically on the compilation and sale of products that identify consumers based on their financial vulnerability or health status. Rockefeller initially launched the investigation in October 2012 to uncover how consumers’ personal information was being collected, shared and used.
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Judging from the ten warning letters mailed to data brokers this week and the six we detailed last month, it is clear that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) very seriously. These warning letters come on the heels of the FTC’s decision in December of last year to
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