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Senate sponsors push broader state limits on federal access to Maryland data
Summary
Senator Clarence Lam and other sponsors presented the Maryland Data Privacy Act (Senate Bill 977), a push to extend and broaden existing state limits on federal and third-party access to sensitive state-held data.
Senator Clarence Lam and other sponsors presented the Maryland Data Privacy Act (Senate Bill 977), a push to extend and broaden existing state limits on federal and third-party access to sensitive state-held data.
What the bill would do
Senator Lam described the bill as an extension of the 2021 Driver Privacy Act: it would require state or federal judicial warrants for federal agents to access certain Maryland state databases (including driverlicense and law-enforcement data), expand reporting obligations to the Attorney General and General Assembly when requests occur, and add limits and…
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