In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a rule limiting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information.

New rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and settlements from the Federal Trade Commission would limit what information data brokers can sell and who they can sell it to.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hopes to rein in transactions that can expose Social Security numbers, financial details, and more.

Data brokers might be treated more like credit bureaus in the future... if this law actually gets passed. The post US Government Targets Data Brokers To Protect Consumers appeared first on Tech.co.