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Journalist and industry witnesses warn of data‑broker harms and AI‑enabled pricing

Joint hearing of the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development and the Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing & General Affairs · February 5, 2026
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Summary

At the committee hearing, a former NBC reporter recounted the ChoicePoint breach and recent data‑broker enforcement, while a former Visa executive and others described how profiling powers dynamic pricing and profiling that can harm consumers and small businesses.

Journalistic and industry testimony at the Vermont joint committee hearing underlined tangible consumer harms tied to large‑scale data collection, from sold lists of vulnerable people to dynamic, profile‑based pricing.

Bob Sullivan, a former NBC News reporter and host of the podcast The Perfect Scam, recounted reporting on the ChoicePoint breach and how California’s Data Breach Notification Act helped reveal it. Sullivan told legislators that…

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