Why Elizabeth Warren is right to ban the sale of geolocation and health data

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Acting in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s amendments to the landmark Roe v. Wade case regulating abortion rights, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to prohibit any transaction, sale or transfer of users’ geolocation or health data, a move that would effective shut down an entire industry of data brokers engaged in the mass marketing…