Report: State Privacy Laws Fail to Protect Public Servants' Data from Brokers, Enabling Threats
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Summary
A new report reveals that state-level consumer privacy laws fail to adequately protect public servants' personal data from data brokers, creating a 'data-to-violence pipeline' that enables threats and violence against civil servants. The report from the Public Service Alliance's Security Project finds that while violent threats to public servants are increasing, existing privacy laws don't provide sufficient protections, allowing data brokers to collect and sell sensitive information that can be used to target public officials.
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violent threats to public servants across the US have been increasing
state privacy laws offer public servants few ways to protect their private data, even as threats against them are on the rise
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