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Texas Data Brokers and Their Supply Chains

Who counts as a data broker in Texas, what chapter 510 requires, and how broker data flows through supply chains.

LG05 · Hub: Texas Privacy Statutes · Intended reader: General counsel, privacy leads, and business operators

Scope

Texas data broker law under current Business and Commerce Code chapter 510, including amendments, scope, registration, notices, security, prohibited uses, onward sale, and enforcement. Texas relevance: chapter 510 as amended by the 2025 SB 1343 and SB 2121 changes makes Texas broker registration and downstream-sale rules a standalone compliance and diligence topic for any organization buying or selling data in Texas.

Section outline

  1. Deck: "Who counts as a data broker in Texas, what chapter 510 requires, and how broker data flows through supply chains."
  2. Short answer: definition, registration, notices, security, prohibited uses, enforcement.
  3. Section: Broker Definition and Statutory Thresholds.
  4. Section: Registration.
  5. Section: Rights Links and Notices.
  6. Section: Security Obligations.
  7. Section: Prohibited Uses.
  8. Section: Onward Sale and Supply-Chain Obligations.
  9. Section: Penalties and DTPA Treatment (limited by section 510.009).
  10. Section: Federal and California Comparisons (narrower regimes, only where relevant).
  11. What Is Unsettled: amendment interpretation and downstream-sale boundary questions.
  12. Sources.
  13. Related reading: LG01 (applicability), LG02 (TDPSA duties).

Assigned content modules

  • G39: Texas Data Brokers and Data Supply Chains

Required research sections

  • Broker definition and statutory thresholds (what it covers)
  • Registration, rights links, and notices (what it covers)
  • Security obligations (what it covers)
  • Prohibited uses (what it covers)
  • Onward sale and supply-chain obligations (what it covers)
  • Penalties and DTPA treatment limited by section 510.009 (what it covers)
  • Comparisons to PADFAA and California broker regulation (only where relevant)

Research anchors and owner works

Anchors: L05, L10, S03. Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented)

Owner works: A01 (dependency; content to be supplied by owner, not invented).

Sister-site crossover

none required. Crossover seed original.

Industry: All industries
Track: Compliance

Related reading

  • applicability