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Md. Bill Seeks Data Broker Registry, Privacy Enforcement Unit

Maryland Democrats cross-filed data broker registry bills in the House and Senate on Wednesday.

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Sen. Katie Hester and five other Democratic state senators filed the “Building Information Guardrails Data Act” as SB-904. Del. Jared Solomon filed the same bill as HB-1089 in the House.

The legislation would create a data broker registry requiring annual registrations and establish a privacy protection and enforcement unit within the attorney general office’s consumer protection division. Also, it would impose a tax on certain data brokers’ gross income.