🇺🇸 USA May 1, 2026 · Theo Wells-Spackman

Lawmakers race to finish data privacy bill amid outcry from businesses and medical providers

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Lawmakers race to finish data privacy bill amid outcry from businesses and medical providers
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Rep. Michael Marcotte, R-Coventry, speaks on the floor of the House at the Statehouse in Montpelier in March 2025. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger



Theo Wells-Spackman is a Report for America corps member who reports for VTDigger.



“For me, data privacy is about risk,” Wendy Peterson, a Vermont resident and software engineer, told the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee on Friday morning. As a transgender woman, she said, federal policy has increasingly threatened her pers

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