Hawaii governor vetoes location-data privacy bill

StateScoop: Hawaii Gov. David Ige last week vetoed a bill that would have required telecommunications companies to obtain explicit consent from customers before selling their location data.

The bill, which was similar to legislation now being considered in more than a dozen other states, targeted a common practice of selling consumer location data to companies called location aggregators, which was revealed last year by the New York Times.

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