The Oregon state legislature on Tuesday passed a law banning the sale of precise geolocation data, making it the second state in the country to have greenlit such legislation. Maryland passed a similar bill last year that will take effect in October. Both bills also ban the sale of data belonging to children — Maryland for children under 18, and Oregon for children under 16. Although there is a federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the two state bills go further than it because the federal law only bans the sale of data for children under age 13, according to Matt Schwartz, a policy analyst at Consumer Reports.
Oregon becomes second state to ban sale of precise geolocation data (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)
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