Why Elizabeth Warren is right to ban the sale of geolocation and health data

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readJun 16, 2022

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IMAGE: A location pin and an EKG graph, symbolizing location and healthcare data
IMAGE: Gdakaska and Claire de la Cruz — Pixabay

Acting in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s amendments to the landmark Roe v. Wade case regulating abortion rights, Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed legislation to prohibit any transaction, sale or transfer of users’ geolocation or health data, a move that would effective shut down an entire industry of data brokers engaged in the mass marketing

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)