[ NNSquad ] Congress and location app legislation

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
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