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Legislative Council reviews amendment to H.211 that broadens data‑broker rules, adds Gen‑AI definition
Summary
On Jan. 14 the Legislative Council considered Committee Amendment 2 to H.211, which would broaden the definition of brokered personal information to include derived data, add a definition of a Gen AI system, require quicker broker registration, change fee authority, and require new opt‑out and deletion procedures; no formal vote was taken.
Rick Sable, of the Office of Legislative Counsel, walked the Legislative Council through Committee Amendment 2 to H.211 during a Jan. 14 committee session, describing a suite of changes that would broaden what counts as brokered personal information, add a new definition for artificial‑intelligence systems, and alter registration, fee and notice rules for data brokers.
Sable said the amendment replaces a narrowly enumerated list of covered data with broader language so that brokered personal information can include "any information, including derived data," and indicated the bill would treat information that can be used to identify a person or a device as covered. "Brokered personal information means any information including derived data that is linked or reasonably linkable alone or in combination with other information to an identified or identifiable individual or to a device," he said while reading the proposed language.
The change removes a prior exception for certain "publicly available information," replacing it with a new, specific definition of what counts as publicly available information later in the amendment.…
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