New Jersey enacted a sweeping new data broker law on June 30, days after it was proposed. While its potential for seven-figure registration fees and expansive scope have gotten a lot of attention, there's another trend that the New Jersey law advances: State data broker laws are now applying to companies that have never been thought to be data brokers — i.e., consumer-facing companies that deal with customer and first-party data.
Law360 recently published an article that Sam Castic wrote about this. Click here to view the article.
Sam Castic is a Partner with Hintze Law, chair of the firm’s Retail Group, and co-chair of the Cybersecurity and Breach Response Group and FinTech + Financial Services Group. As a former chief privacy officer, he helps companies build, scale, and right-size privacy programs and strategies.
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