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Delegates hear sweeping proposal for data‑broker registry and tax to fund privacy enforcement
Summary
Delegate Jared Solomon backed a bill to create a Maryland data‑broker registry and a tax on sales of personal data to fund enforcement of privacy laws; Attorney General and privacy advocates supported it, while business groups urged narrowing the definition and raised constitutional and operational concerns.
Delegate Jared Solomon described House Bill 10‑89 to the Economic Matters Committee as a follow‑up to Maryland’s recent privacy reforms: create a registry of data brokers and a tax on data sales to fund enforcement of the state’s online privacy laws.
"The first piece of this is the creation of a data broker registry," Solomon said. "The second piece is we create a tax on essentially the sale of that data." He told the committee the registry would identify who is holding Marylanders’ data and provide a route to opt out or correct errors; the revenue, Solomon said, would support an enforcement unit in the Office of the Attorney General to investigate privacy violations and related high‑tech matters.
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