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Massachusetts Prepares To Ban The Collection And Abuse Of Cell Phone Location Data (www.techdirt.com)

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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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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 4 points 1 year ago

I don't give a shit about video games and I do live in this state.

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