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Consumer Privacy: Changes to Legal Framework Needed to Address Gaps

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 11, 2019
Release Date June 11, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-621T
Summary:

Information resellers—companies that collect and resell information on individuals—have dramatically increased the collection and sharing of personal data in recent years, raising privacy concerns.

We testified that there is no overarching federal privacy law that governs the collection and sale of personal information among private-sector companies (such as information resellers). There is also no federal statute that gives consumers the right to learn what information is held about them for marketing purposes and who holds it.

We've previously recommended that Congress consider legislation to strengthen consumer privacy.

 

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