consumer reporting
Consumer Reporting Firms Fought for a Year to Exempt Data From California Privacy Law
Increasingly trading in unregulated data profiles, firms lobbied to blunt users’ control of personal information
Even though federally regulated consumer reports were already exempted from California’s ambitious new privacy law, the companies that sell them spent much of the last year engaged in an as yet unsuccessful lobbying effort to prevent individuals from opting out of sharing their own data from the firms’ databases. » Read more