The head of the Senate Commerce Committee wants data brokers to disclose the names of their clients—especially those that categorize people as financially vulnerable or by their health status, MediaPost reports. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) wrote a letter to Acxiom, Epsilon, LexisNexis, NextMark and MEDbase 200 asking that they name all of their clients for the last five years. Rockefeller’s concerns include that customers are being treated unfairly as a result of the personal data stored on them. He recently said he’s “revolted” by reports that brokers sell such lists as “genetic disease sufferers.”
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