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House advances bill to give Vermonters deletion rights from data brokers, raises fees and penalties
Summary
H.211 would expand definitions of brokered personal information, create a right to request deletion, increase annual data broker registration fees from $100 to $900, require a $20,000 bond, raise penalties, and ask the Secretary of State to study a centralized deletion mechanism with a $50,000 appropriation; committees reported favorably and Ways and Means outlined expected revenue gains.
The House heard an extended presentation of H.211, a bill that overhauls Vermont’s data broker registration and consumer protections by widening definitions of brokered personal information, granting Vermonters a deletion right, increasing registration fees and penalties, and authorizing a Secretary of State study of an accessible deletion mechanism.
Representative Priestley (Member from Bradford) described how the bill broadens the definition of brokered personal information to include information linked to an identifiable individual or a device associated with a household, and adds definitions for precise geolocation, processor, publicly available information and sale. The bill…
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