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House Judiciary Committee advances data-broker registry bill to consent calendar
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee moved HB 16‑94 — a bill requiring data brokers to register and respond to state-forwarded deletion or opt‑out requests — to the consent calendar after testimony from privacy advocates and industry groups. The committee voted 15‑0 to report the bill.
Representative Alice Wade opened the committee’s hearing on HB 16‑94, a data‑privacy bill that would require data brokers operating in New Hampshire to register annually, disclose data‑practices, meet baseline cybersecurity standards and, in Wade’s version, allow residents to make a single portal request to the secretary of state’s office that the state would forward to all registered brokers.
Wade framed the bill as a response to a multibillion‑dollar industry that builds “detailed profiles on nearly every Granite Stater,” collecting browsing, purchase and location data. She told the committee the bill was modeled on Texas’s…
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