Lawfare
The Oregon State House of Representatives. (Glen Bledsoe, https://flic.kr/p/8q51tv; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Data brokers’ unregulated buying and selling of Americans’ data on the open market continues to make headlines. Vice reported in May, for example, that data broker SafeGraph was openly selling GPS data on people visiting abortion clinics (the company has since claimed it stopped providing location pattern data for sale and for access through its API).
Examining State Bills on Data Brokers