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A Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Ban the Sale of Cell Phone Location Data

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Data brokers can sell your location data to any paying customer but a Massachusetts bill designed to protect abortion-seekers would outlaw such sales.

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https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/662948/utilising-mobile-network-data.pdf

74 page document about mobile phone data and transportation modeling.

Origin destination data from cell phones is useful for fairly obvious reasons.

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