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Massachusetts Prepares To Ban The Collection And Abuse Of Cell Phone Location Data (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology
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Massachusetts Prepares To Ban The Collection And Abuse Of Cell Phone Location Data::For more than a decade now, app makers, phone makers, wireless companies -- and pretty much everybody else -- has been collecting and monetizing your daily movement habits. There's genuinely no reason most of these companies (like, say, your light bulb maker) need this information, but because the U.S. is too corrupt to pass a…

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[–] DrinkBoba 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great move! Should be universally banned.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls 4 points 2 years ago

Hopefully other states follow suit