It's insane that this is a 'proposed new law' in 2023. That shit should have been illegal the moment it was possible.

Carl Sagan was right.

“when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues”

He lived through a time when the national guard was murdering college students.

Since then they have only gotten more sinister.

Unless this is enacted in every state, law enforcement can deduce the state a person of interest is in just by not getting location data for them.

I wonder if they would still be able to sell location data in aggregate?

I play Pokémon Go (yes that's still a thing) and Niantic recently made a deal that they don't sell individual location data which people have taken as they sell bulk location data instead (scrubbing data such as your name etc).

Though we definitely do have some issues, being a MA resident is, on balance, pretty nice.

From the article: "Firms say this data is anonymized but the truth is that it can easily be de-anonymized. The data brokerage industry is pretty much totally unregulated, allowing for an assortment of unsavory customers to buy Americans’ data willy nilly."

Isn't this the real issue and not the headline? US really needs GDPR.

But you can give it away for free! Maybe as a bonus for subscribing to a data broker's service!

meanwhile guns...