The bill is expected to blanket ban companies and startups from selling people’s precise location data across the state.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260608140149/https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/massachusetts-votes-to-pass-new-privacy-rights-bill-that-bans-sale-of-precise-location-data/
We’re not selling our data, we’re giving it freely to our sister company incorporated as an LLC in Texas! (or some other location where the law becomes unenforcable.)
don’t get me wrong I like the direction it’s going but loopholes are gonna always exist, and proving this happens is about as easy as proving someone pirated software by setting up a sftp server and giving the credentials to a buddy… and they could simply ship backup tapes to somewhere as an offsite copy and make it completely impossible to figure out.