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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

[–] UFO64 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mass has really been doing well for laws in the last few years it seems.

[–] MaxVoltage -1 points 2 years ago

Anyone else's wife make you have Life360 on your phone?

[–] popekingjoe 3 points 2 years ago

Time to move to Massachusetts it seems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

:O that's good news

[–] randon31415 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In other news, Pokemon go is about to shut down in just Massachusetts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You mean the app that sold the physical presence of children to fast food restaurants? Good riddance.