In June 2024, over 30 special interest consumer groups wrote to the FTC urging it to put forth the Notice of...

In May 2024, the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee‘s Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, And Commerce Subcommittee held a markup of three...

In May 2024, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) wrote an OpEd noting that “data brokers are undermining country’s safety, privacy and...

On May 30, the CFPB hosted a Data Enforcers Convening: Data Brokers and the Sale of Sensitive Data: Privacy and Security...

On April 17, 2024, the U.S. House Energy & Commerce’s Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing, Legislative Solutions to Protect...

On April 7, 2024, a discussion draft of the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 was released. This draft represents an...

In March 2024, the CFPB posted a blog (Seth Frotman) saying businesses harvest information on people’s financial status or record of...

In March 2024, several U.S. Senators, all Republicans, wrote to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, noting that any forthcoming “broad expansion of...

In March, the U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing, Legislation to Protect American Data and National Security from...

In February 2024, civil rights activist Al Sharpton sent a letter to New York Attorney General Tish James, urging her office to...

In February 2024, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) posted a tweet about Socure and sent a letter to the company. In...

In February 2024, the White House released a Fact Sheet on an Executive Order to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data. We...

On December 15, 2023, the CFPB published its Final Report of the Small Business Review Panel on the CFPB’s Proposals and Alternatives Under Consideration...

In February 2023, the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy issued a report, Data Brokers and the Sale of Data...

California Statute: California’s data broker law is codified at Cal. Civ. Code Sec. 1798.99.80 et seq. The data broker law was first...