United States: New York City Bill Would Bar Sharing Of Cellphone Location Data [telecom]

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by Gary Kibel and Maxine Sharavsky

A bill has been introduced in the New York City Council that, if enacted, would make it unlawful for a mobile application developer or a telecommunications carrier to share a customer's location data with third parties without the customer's consent based on whether the data was collected while the customer's mobile communications device was physically present in New York City.