Das Massachusetts House verabschiedet ein strenges Datenschutzgesetz, das den Verkauf von Standortdaten von Mobiltelefonen verbietet
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06-05-massachusetts-house-passes-strong-data-privacy-bill-banning-sale-of-cell-phone-location-data
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Good on Massachusetts. Hopefully the fine is significant and % based.
So no Flock then?!
Boston is One of my favorite cities in America the rest on the West Coast
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Privacy shouldn’t be a premium feature. It should be the default.
Hope they keep this ball rolling and it doesn’t stop with just phone location data. Ban all unconsented user profiling and tracking on all devices. I shouldn’t be leaving a digital footprint unless I specifically want to.
Much much more of this please. *It’s our data* and they’re blatantly stealing it. Because the use of this data is often harmful, mining personal data should be ‚opt in‘ only, not a requirement of use, and if opted in, then the user is also compensated.
Uh oh, your phone’s weather app is about to start lobbying.
They can ban all they want and then they will some how get “hacked” and the people who’s shit had been “stolen”(sold) have to fix the fucking mess with minimal, if any, help.
Banning the „sale“.
They can still trade, give away, swap, and otherwise make available. They just can’t sell it.
lol
The point is, there is already an army of lawyers working hard to find a way around the law, and it’s not even a law yet.
Hell yeah! Good on ya, Mass!
Is this the bill that was being pushed by one of those new phone companies? Gonna have to go check. IIRC it was fairly toothless.
Okay. Now let’s see them enforce it.
Please, more of this.
The fine should be $500k PER USER payable to the user who’s data was violated. Sell 100,000 people’s personal data that’ll be $50,000,000,000.
We need penalties that scale proportionally with the scale of the crime otherwise it’s just a business expense.
This makes Peter Thiel and Elon Musk sad.
punishable by $10,000 fine! That will show them! /s
Jail time for violation or this is just cost of doing business.
FCC will intervene unfortunately.
and if one steps out of the state for a minute? surely the trackers will just stop when you cross a state line
Cars need to be included in this.
Plus the sale of automotive location, audio and camera data also needs to be banned to prevent modern cars from becoming mobile flock cameras
A law needs to be passed that says if a company sells YOUR information YOU are entitled to a % of the money they make from your data.
Companies like these sell your info for pennies. If they had to start cutting checks for $0.20 – 0.30 and then spend close to $1.00 to mail it to you, they’ll quickly stop.