Create a Data Broker Registry and Improve Consumer Protections

Last updated: May 23, 2021

Details about this bill
Category: Privacy / Data Protection
Status: Defeated
Sponsor: Representative Margaret O'Neil, House 15
Session: 130
Bill #: LD 1655

Position:

Monitoring.

UPDATE: The committee voted the bill Ought Not to Pass. It is dead.

Summary:

Representative O’Neil of Saco would require data brokers, which are businesses that obtain and sell or license to 3rd parties or allow 3rd parties to access the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship, to register with the Secretary of State, to protect a consumer's personal information through various security requirements and to allow a consumer to opt out of allowing the sale or lease of or access to the consumer's personal information.