Senator Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales
What's needed is a ban on <i>usage</i> of location and health data unless very specific conditions are met, targeting the purchasers of data not only the middlemen and ensuring that it's illegal to use personal data which "fell off of a truck".<p>Data brokers can go underground to circumvent a ban on sales, but the end users funding that industry are legitimate businesses who (hopefully) would have to follow the laws, so it's important to target them.