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Floor Q&A narrows scope of data‑privacy bill: cell‑phone location treated as geolocation; bill special‑ordered
Summary
Delegates pressed the sponsor of House Bill 7‑11 on whether treating cell‑phone and vehicle location data as geolocation would limit venue security uses and intersect with pending court cases. The floor leader and sponsor said the bill preserves consent and adds protections; the House special‑ordered the bill to the appropriate time tomorrow for additional amendments.
The clerk read House Bill 7‑11, a consumer‑data and privacy measure that expands definitions of protected locational data to include cell‑phone and vehicle location points often sold by data brokers. Floor members asked whether the bill would hamper legitimate security uses by stadiums or intersect with pending legal issues about geofencing.
A delegate questioned whether stadiums that require tracking for…
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