Committee reviews draft requiring Attorney General notice form for data-broker disclosures

The Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development on March 27 reviewed a revised draft of legislation that would require the attorney general to create a standardized written notice for individuals to send to data brokers seeking cessation of specific disclosures.

Legislative counsel Rick Seigel described the change as a standardized form and said, “This is the notice that the AG will produce for people to use to send to data brokers.” The draft (referred to in the meeting as draft 3.2/3.3) adds a new subdivision that would require a covered person, or an agent acting for a covered person, to include the covered person’s full name and the specific protected information being disclosed when submitting that notice.

Why it matters: the provision creates a single, AG-provided notice form intended to make it easier for individuals to tell data brokers which specific items of personal data to stop disclosing. Committee members emphasized the measure is reactionary — it applies after data are already being disclosed — and flagged limits and potential unintended consequences, including…