> “We opposed the data broker registry in Vermont because we believe it is unnecessary to single out a specific industry (in this case, ‘data brokers,’) when first-party data controllers often have as much data as companies like Acxiom,” the company’s chief data ethics officer Jordan Abbott told Wired.<p>I agree with him. First parties like Google and Facebook should be subject to the same rules.<p>But what really surprised me was that Acxiom has a chief data ethics officer. That job sounds like it would be as real as a consumer health advocate at Philip Morris.