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At least 750 data brokers were registered in one or more US state registries, according to a Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and EFF analysis published June 2025. See the count by state, the hundreds of companies missing from each state's own list, and why Connecticut and New Jersey still have no working registry.
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New Jersey's Division of Consumer Affairs announced on July 10, 2026 that it will not enforce the state's new data broker registration fees, which run as high as $1.5 million a year, until June 2027.
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The CPPA's Data Broker Enforcement Strike Force issued its first fine against a marketing firm for selling custom audiences without registering as a data broker. Here is what triggers the registration duty.
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FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is about to bring more privacy cases than it can easily track in the second half of 2026. Four enforcement actions since March, against Match/OkCupid, Kochava, Amazon and RentGrow, show what is already driving the surge.
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Maryland's HB 711 takes effect July 1, 2026, barring controllers from knowingly selling personal data to any government unit that has supported civil immigration enforcement in the prior six months.
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Data broker breaches have cost US consumers more than 20.8 billion dollars in identity theft losses, according to a Joint Economic Committee report published February 2026. See how many data brokers actually exist, what states require them to register, and how much of your data they hold.
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California's data broker deletion platform, DROP, goes live today. Registered brokers must process consumer deletion requests or face $200 per request, per day, in penalties.
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