Month: June 2018

On May 22, 2018, the State of Vermont enacted the country’s first data broker law. As set forth by the new law, a data broker is defined as “a business, or unit or units of a business, separately or together, that knowingly collects and sells or licenses to third parties the brokered personal information of…

In August 2009, a final order was entered in a matter initiated by the Federal Trade Commission against Sears Holdings Management Corporation. According to the FTC, from 2007 through 2008 Sears utilized a downloadable software application that collected sensitive information from users without disclosing its data collection practices. In part, the order obligated Sears to…