Companies must limit the data they collect from Maryland consumers under a privacy law signed Thursday by Gov. Wes Moore (D).
The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (SB 541/HB 567) imposes more stringent privacy standards on businesses than similar laws in other states. Consumer advocates say language requiring a company to minimize the data it holds from the outset marks a departure from industry-supported measures elsewhere.
Maryland joins 17 other states that have laws generally giving consumers the right to know what data companies have collected on them and ask that the data be corrected or ...
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