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Committee hears support for H.211, which would pair a data‑broker registry with an automated deletion platform
Summary
Witnesses described 2025 cross‑registry research showing likely nonregistration by hundreds of data brokers, detailed California’s Delete Act and DROP platform as an operational model, and urged Vermont to adopt H.211’s expanded disclosure, deletion and penalty provisions. No vote was taken.
Privacy advocates, technical auditors and a national‑security consultant told the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee on Wednesday that H.211 — which would expand data‑broker disclosures and pair Vermont’s registry with a scalable deletion mechanism — could help Vermonters reclaim personal information that brokers routinely buy and sell.
Emery Rhone, identified in the transcript as the associate director of policy at Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, described research consolidating registries from California, Vermont, Texas and Oregon. "We found brokers frequently do not use consistent naming across states," the witness said, and reported the cross‑registry comparison identified roughly 750 unique broker entities overall and 309 that appeared in other registries but not in Vermont. Of those 309, the witness said 199 disclosed collecting geolocation data and 179 disclosed collecting data about minors. "When one state requires brokers to disclose more detail,…
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