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Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
A New Jersey court ordered the transfer of radaris.com and more than a dozen related data broker domains to Atlas Data Privacy Corp after Radaris repeatedly failed to comply with Daniel's Law, which requires data brokers to remove personal information of law enforcement officials and their families upon request. Radaris operated through a complex network of shell companies registered in offshore jurisdictions and used fictitious executives to obscure ownership by Russian-born operators based in Massachusetts. The court victory represents a rare successful enforcement action against the data broker industry, though the case faces constitutional challenges and broader questions remain about federal privacy legislation.
Why it matters: Law enforcement officials, government personnel, judges, and their families in New Jersey and 14 other states can now invoke Daniel's Law to force removal from commercial people-search services, but privacy practitioners should monitor ongoing federal appeals challenging the statute's constitutionality and the broader gap in comprehensive U.S. data privacy laws that leave most Americans unprotected from data brokers.
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