{
  "id": 2104592,
  "title": "Privacy advocates call on Maryland to investigate data brokers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/privacy-advocates-call-on-maryland-to-investigate-data-brokers",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NPR",
    "slug": "npr",
    "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/20/nx-s1-5938822/maryland-privacy-data-brokers"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Maryland has one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country. But privacy advocates allege data brokers are violating the law by selling data to police and federal immigration agencies.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}