Elizabeth Hewitt reports:
Vermont lawmakers are poised to take action to regulate data brokers in the coming months.
Data brokers — companies that collect and maintain consumers’ personal information — have been in the spotlight after the credit report giant Equifax revealed that a security breach exposed the private information of millions of Americans.
However, lawmakers in Vermont began focusing on issues with the data brokerage industry last year, passing a law commissioning a study committee to examine what steps the state could take.
On the first day of the 2018 session, the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee reviewed the six recommendations in the study group’s report.
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