Industry witnesses tell Commerce & Economic Development committee S.71 risks overbroad compliance and constitutional questions
Industry witnesses told the Commerce & Economic Development committee that draft 4.2 of S.71 should be narrowed to avoid sweeping in small businesses and nonprofits, cited burdensome thresholds and ambiguous definitions (biometric, household, deidentification), and raised concerns that regulating the sale or aggregation of publicly available information could face First Amendment challenges.
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The Commerce & Economic Development committee on May 20 took testimony on S.71, a proposed Vermont consumer data privacy statute, hearing from financial-industry, business and technology trade groups that urged narrowing several definitions and adding implementation safeguards.
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