Episode 21

Protecting our personal data

June 17, 2022 (prerecorded 6/16): AG candidate Charity Clark joins us this week to discuss data protections and how Vermont could do better. 

To learn more about Charity: https://www.charityforvermont.com/

H.570 is the data privacy bill under consideration in 2022. Here is a copy of the bill with comments: https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2022/WorkGroups/House%20Commerce/Bills/H.570/Witness%20Documents/H.570~Ryan%20Kriger~Consumer%20Privacy%20Language~3-16-2022.pdf

The AG's office wrote a memo to the Legislature, January 2022, with recommendations for data privacy legislation H.570. Check out the memo here: https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2022/WorkGroups/House%20Commerce/Bills/H.570/Witness%20Documents/H.570~Charity%20Clark~Report%20to%20General%20Assembly%20on%20Privacy~3-16-2022.pdf

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net/

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.