The Location Privacy Protection Act of 2011 was introduced by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) last June, a month after Franken held a mobile privacy hearing where executives from Google and Apple testified about their current practices for collecting, storing and using consumer location data. The bill requires companies to get a customer’s express consent before collecting location data and before sharing the information with third parties.
Following the flap last fall over Carrier IQ’s analytic monitoring software for carriers that track consumer activity on cellphones, Rep.
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