https://gizmodo.com/massachusetts-location-shield-act-aclu-data-brokers-abo-1850624220
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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Carl Sagan was right.
“when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues”
He lived through a time when the national guard was murdering college students.
Since then they have only gotten more sinister.
We're in a time where cops are caught on camera killing people. Privacy is a matter of life or death now.