Privacy advocates call on Maryland to investigate data brokers
Privacy advocates are urging Maryland officials to investigate data brokers they say are selling personal data to police and federal immigration agencies, in potential violation of the state's strong data privacy law.
Why this matters: Maryland passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the country. If data brokers can quietly sell personal information to law enforcement and immigration agencies anyway, the law does not do what people think it does. This matters for everyone in Maryland, but especially for immigrants. The point of data rights is that they apply even when the buyer is the government. If the state does not enforce its own rules here, the rules are mostly decorative.
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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