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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Congress and location app legislation
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Congress and location app legislation
http://j.mp/TDSHfc (New York Times)
"For Senator Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat, the potential hazard
is that by compiling location patterns over time, companies could
create an intimate portrait of a person's familial and professional
associations, political and religious beliefs, even health status. To
give consumers some say in the surveillance, Mr. Franken has been
working on a locational privacy protection bill that would require
entities like app developers to obtain explicit one-time consent from
users before recording the locations of their mobile devices. It would
prohibit stalking apps - programs that allow one person to track
another person's whereabouts surreptitiously."
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The devil is in the details. The possibility of unintended negative
consequences is quite real.
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