Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 510.002 · Chapter 510. DATA BROKERS
APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN DATA.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies to personal data from an individual that is collected, transferred, or processed by a data broker.
(b) This chapter does not apply to the following data:
(1) deidentified data, if the data broker:
(A) takes reasonable technical measures to ensure that the data is not able to be used to identify an individual with whom the data is associated;
(B) publicly commits in a clear and conspicuous manner:
(i) to process and transfer the data solely in a deidentified form without any reasonable means for reidentification; and
(ii) to not attempt to identify the information to an individual with whom the data is associated; and
(C) contractually obligates a person that receives the information from the provider:
(i) to comply with this subsection with respect to the information; and
(ii) to require that those contractual obligations be included in any subsequent transfer of the data to another person;
(2) employee data;
(3) publicly available information;
(4) inferences made exclusively from multiple independent sources of publicly available information that do not reveal sensitive data with respect to an individual; or
(5) data subject to Title V, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. Section 6801 et seq.).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 963 (S.B. 2105), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Redesignated from Business and Commerce Code, Chapter 509 by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 204 (H.B. 1620), Sec. 22.001(3), eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.510.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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