Virginia bans sale of geolocation data | EP #89
Good morning, it's Friday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 89. The internet woke up with privacy law, container plumbing, encryption-memory trouble, and photo-server news all trying to drink coffee from the same mug. First up... Virginia has banned the sale of geolocation data, which is one of those headlines where you go, wait, we were just letting people sell the little blue dot that follows me to the gas station? The story hit Hacker News hard because location data is not some abstract spreadsheet; it is where you sleep, where you worship, where you buy cough drops at 11 p.m. Heh. Hhh…
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