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Written in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. These findings come as more states are passing data broker transparency laws that require brokers to provide information about their business and, in some cases, give consumers an easy way to opt out. In recent years, California, Texas, Oregon, and Vermont have passed data broker registration laws that require brokers to identify themselves to state regulators and the public. A new analysis by Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reveals that many data brokers registered in one state aren’t registered in others. Companies that registered in one state but did not register in another include: 291 companies that did not register in California, 524 in Texas, 475 in Oregon, and 309 in Vermont. These numbers come from data analyzed from early April 2025. PRC and EFF sent letters to state enforcement agencies urging them to investigate these findings. More investigation by states is needed to determine whether these registration discrepancies reflect widespread noncompliance, gaps and definitional differences in the various state laws, or some other explanation. New data broker transparency laws are an essential first step to reining in the data broker industry. This is an ecosystem in which your personal data taken from apps and other web services can be bought and sold largely without your knowledge. The data can be highly sensitive like location information, and can be used to target you with ads, discriminate against you, and even enhance government surveillance. The widespread sharing of this data also makes it more susceptible to data breaches. And its easy availability allows personal data to be obtained by bad actors for phishing, harassment, or stalking. Consumers need robust deletion mechanisms to remove their data stored and sold by these companies. But the potential registration gaps we identified threaten to undermine such tools. California’s Delete Act will soon provide consumers with an easy tool to delete their data held by brokers—but it can only work if brokers register. California has already brought a handful of enforcement actions against brokers who failed to register under that law, and such compliance efforts are becoming even more critical as deletion mechanisms come online. It is important to understand the scope of our analysis. This analysis only includes companies that registered in at least one state. It does not capture data brokers that completely disregard state laws by failing to register in any state. A total of 750 data brokers have registered in at least one state. While harder to find, shady data brokers who have failed to register anywhere should remain a primary enforcement target. This analysis also does not claim or prove that any of the data brokers we found broke the law. While the definition of “data broker” is similar across states, there are variations that could require a company to register in one state and not another. To take one example, a data broker registered in Texas that only brokers the data of Texas residents would not be legally required to register in California. To take another, a data broker that registered with Vermont in 2020 that then changed its business model and is no longer a broker, would not be required to register in 2025. More detail on variations in data broker laws is outlined in our letters to regulators. States should investigate compliance with data broker registration requirements, enforce their laws, and plug any loopholes. Ultimately, consumers deserve protections regardless of where they reside, and Congress should also work to pass baseline federal data broker legislation that minimizes collection and includes strict use and disclosure limits, transparency obligations, and consumer rights. Read more here: California letter Texas Letter Oregon Letter Vermont Letter Spreadsheet of data brokers

On Monday’s The Sons of Liberty radio, I presented the case against President Donald Trump’s unlawful attack on Iran, which didn’t do anything but waste our money, endanger our people and do absolutely nothing.  On top of that, the president then openly lied to the people about what it accomplished because the Iranians’ enriched uranium …

The show must go on… One of the great things about live music is that you never really know what you’re going to get. When everything goes right it can be a magical moment, but when things go wrong, the crowd ends up getting a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience…which can sometimes be even more entertaining. Well apparently ’90s country star LeAnn Rimes suffered a unique malfunction on stage during a recent show – but she managed to power through and continue the performance, after filling them in on what she was dealing with. Rimes took to social media over the weekend to reveal the unexpected issue she had to fight through during her concert on Friday night during a show at the Skagit Valley Casino & Resort in Bow, Washington: Her teeth fell out. “Last night, I was on stage. In the middle of ‘One Way Ticket,’ I feel something pop in my mouth. And if you’ve been around, you know I’ve had a lot of dental surgeries. I have a bridge in the front, and it fell out in the middle of my song last night – to which I panicked, in the middle, said, ‘Hold on!’ and ran to the side of the stage and put it back in, like popped it back in, and then just went on singing.” Apparently it wasn’t as simple as just popping them back into place though, and not something she was able to quickly fix on stage, so she had to decide whether to pause the performance or keep going and just level with the crowd: And then I just had to get real with everybody and tell them exactly what was happening, or else I would have had to walk off stage.” So for the rest of the show I was literally like this, pushing my teeth in every couple lines, and singing. By the way, I never knew how many ‘f’s’ and ‘th’s’ and ‘sh’s’ that I have in my songs, especially ‘Can’t Fight the Moonlight.’ Like, ‘Can’t Fight the Moonlight,’ they completely fell out again in my mouth. It was the most epic experience ever.” Now, LeAnn Rimes (who is now married and known as LeAnn Rimes Cibrian) has been around since she burst on the scene as a 14-year old back in 1996. But apparently this was a first in her 25-year career: “I don’t usually have firsts in my career. That was a first, and hopefully a last. I hope my teeth stay in tonight. We shall see. The front row, get ready for something to fly out. If you catch them, please return them.” But Rimes didn’t seem too bothered by the whole experience, and got a good laugh out of the whole thing: “Good times. Just keeping it real out here with you, just as real as I had to last night. And you know what, there wasn’t a f***ing thing I could do about it except either walk off or just hold my teeth in and sing. So I just ran with it.” And she said the incident could serve as a lesson for other artists who suffer problems onstage: “The show can go on, even in the midst of sheer, utter embarrassment. You just gotta be real with people.” No doubt the fans appreciated the honesty – and the unique show they got to experience: @leannrimes story time… the show must go on ♬ original sound – LeAnn Rimes Cibrian The post LeAnn Rimes Suffers Dental Malfunction On Stage As Her Teeth Fall Out Mid-Show first appeared on Whiskey Riff.