Data brokers harvest location information from our phone apps, then sell access to the highest bidder, including government. This is a way sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states may try to identify and punish people seeking and providing abortion.Some good news: three members of.
The lawmakers expressed concern about how the data could be used, including by private 'bounty hunters' seeking to sue abortion providers for violating various states' anti-abortion laws.
The committee sent letters to five data brokers and five personal health apps asking the companies to provide documents related to data-sharing by July 21.