Vermont § 2446 - Annual registration

§ 2446. Annual registration

• (a) Annually, on or before January 31 following a year in which a person meets the definition
  of data broker as provided in section 2430 of this title, a data broker shall: (1) register with the Secretary of State; (2) pay a registration fee of $100.00; and (3) provide the following information: (A) the name and primary physical, e-mail, and Internet addresses of the data broker; (B) if the data broker permits a consumer to opt out of the data broker’s collection of
  brokered personal information, opt out of its databases, or opt out of certain sales
  of data: (i) the method for requesting an opt-out; (ii) if the opt-out applies to only certain activities or sales, which ones; and (iii) whether the data broker permits a consumer to authorize a third party to perform the
  opt-out on the consumer’s behalf; (C) a statement specifying the data collection, databases, or sales activities from which
  a consumer may not opt out; (D) a statement whether the data broker implements a purchaser credentialing process; (E) the number of data broker security breaches that the data broker has experienced during
  the prior year, and if known, the total number of consumers affected by the breaches; (F) where the data broker has actual knowledge that it possesses the brokered personal
  information of minors, a separate statement detailing the data collection practices,
  databases, sales activities, and opt-out policies that are applicable to the brokered
  personal information of minors; and (G) any additional information or explanation the data broker chooses to provide concerning
  its data collection practices. (b) A data broker that fails to register pursuant to subsection (a) of this section is
  liable to the State for: (1) a civil penalty of $50.00 for each day, not to exceed a total of $10,000.00 for each
  year, it fails to register pursuant to this section; (2) an amount equal to the fees due under this section during the period it failed to
  register pursuant to this section; and (3) other penalties imposed by law. (c) The Attorney General may maintain an action in the Civil Division of the Superior
  Court to collect the penalties imposed in this section and to seek appropriate injunctive
  relief. (Added 2017, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 2019.)